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

A Yongzheng celadon-glazed vase of this distinctive meiping form with elegant indented foot, of similar size and retaining its cover, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai Yuyao ciqi, vol. 1, Beijing 2005, pp. 232-33, no. 102. Another Yongzheng celadon-glazed example of similar size was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Marchant II – Qing Imperial Porcelain, 29 April 2022, lot 3505. Meiping of this specific type with recessed foot, and of similar size, also appear decorated in underglaze blue, such as the Yongzheng example decorated with scrolling tendrils with feathery leaves, from the Shorenstein Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2966, and the example decorated with flower scrolls against a yellow-enamel ground illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, p. 90, no. 209.