YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE AND RARE DOUCAI ‘FLORAL’ BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The bowl is delicately painted and enamelled to the exterior with a floral scroll alternately comprising peonies and mallows, amid large curled leaves, buds and smaller flowers emerging from scrolling stems, the centre of the interior is decorated with a medallion containing a single iron-red tree-peony surrounded by undulating stems and green leaves, all between single and double underglaze-blue line borders.
5 1⁄4 in. (13.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 & 27 April 1998, lot 518
An English private collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 209

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Compare two other Yongzheng bowls decorated with this exquisite design, one is in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, record no. BATEA:199, another was included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1990, no. 163. Compare also with a related pair of Yongzheng bowls decorated with a similar design depicting six flower heads, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2019, lot 3103.

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