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

Small Yongzheng square vases decorated with boys are very rare. Only a few vases of this type are recorded, including a smaller one from the collection of Ms. Dorothy Bushell, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, accession no. FE.118-1975 (11.1 cm. high); and another, from the John Gardner Coolidge Collection, lent by Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge since 1946 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no, 46.802 (12.8 cm. high).