CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Yongzheng-marked censers of this elegant form are very rare. A Yongzheng robin’s egg-glazed example with an incised seal mark from the Zande Lou Collection, is illustrated in Qing Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, pp. 78-79, no. 22. Another Yongzheng robin’s egg-glazed example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 2950. A Qianlong Ru-type censer of similar form and size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Qingdai danseyou ciqi tezhan (A Special Exhibition of Qing Monochrome Glazed Porcelain), Taipei, 1981, no. 87.