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

A number of Yongzheng bowls of identical size and decoration are preserved in important museum and private collections. A similar bowl is illustrated in Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 38, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 250, no. 229. An example from the Chang Foundation is included in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, no. 141. An identical bowl in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated by I. L. Legeza in A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX, no. 378. Another example was included in exhibition Chinese porcelain from the 15th to the 18th century, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2006, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 12.