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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The exterior is decorated in inky underglaze blue simulating Ming-style ‘heaping and piling’ with a
composite foral scroll between bands of key fret and petal lappets, and the slightly fared foot is encircled
by a band of classic scroll, which is repeated at the interior rim above a leafy peony stem within a double
circle in the center.
9¡ in. (23.7 cm.) diam., box

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s New York, 16 September 1999, lot 325.

A similar bowl with Yongzheng mark in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Blue and
White Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, Book 1, pp. 90-91, pls. 13-13c.

For a probable prototype see the Yongle bowl of similar shape and size decorated with lotus scroll on the
exterior and peony scroll around the inner walls excavated from the late Yongle stratum and illustrated in
Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory
at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong 1989, no. 44.
清雍正 青花纏枝花卉紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款

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