A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
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Property from the Dawentang Collection
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE

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

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1998, lot 392
Literature
Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection, Vol. II, Hong Kong, 2019, pp.370-373, no. 57

Lot Essay

Small Yongzheng ‘boys’ square vases are rare. Compare a slightly smaller one from the collection of Miss Dorothy Bushell, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number: FE.118-1975; a similar one from the John Gardner Coolidge Collection, lent by Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge since 1946 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number: 46.802; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Au Bak Ling Collection, Volume II, 30 October 2025, lot 953.

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