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

A closely related example similarly incised with the same motifs but decorated with a yellow enamel is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, p. 212, no. 315 (A450); the Baur bowl is potted with the same circular protrusion on the stem foot but it appears to be smaller (12.5 cm. diam.) in size. Similar bajixiang-incised bowls raised on a splayed stem foot are known, such as the one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain - The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 134; and another stembowl (16.2 cm. diam.) was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 331.