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

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A FINE DOUCAI ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM MEDALLION’ BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
4 5⁄8 in. (11.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 365

Literature

Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection, Vol. II, Hong Kong, 2019, pp.434-437, no.76
Zhongguo Minjian Shoucang Taoci Daxi – Xianggang Aomen Taiwan, Hebei, 2019, p.266

Exhibited

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Honouring Tradition and Heritage: Min Chiu Society at Sixty, Hong Kong, 18 December 2020 – 28 April 2021, cat. no. 118

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

The current bowl is very rare bearing a double square mark. A very similar pair of bowls is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko. Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.100; and a larger example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is recorded in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p.250, pl.229.

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