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A BLUE GLAZED BOWL Bowls like this display the exceptional technical perfection achieved
Yongzheng mark and of the period at the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period.
Raised on a short flared foot, the tapered sides molded with paired It is superbly potted with delicate bow-string bands molded to the
raised bands near the foot ring and under the wide flared rim, the exterior, where the lustrous and even blue glaze fades to a white
exterior covered with a deep cobalt blue glaze of even tone, the just as the potters intended. The center is delicately painted with a
interior with the underglaze blue six-character mark in the interior well doubly-encircled penciled six-character mark. This bowl, like many
under a double ring. that have come to auction over the years is missing a cover, that we
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high; 7 1/8in (18.2cm) diameter know from a few extant versions was topped with an archaistic finial
that mirrored archaic bronze prototypes. For other examples like ours,
$15,000 - 20,000 see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lots 2908 and 2909; and
Sotheby’s, London, 12 May 2010, lot 122.
清雍正 霽藍釉弦紋盌 《大清雍正年製》款
See also a pair of bowls without covers that sold at Christie’s, Hong
Provenance: Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3202. Another example is published in
A Private English collection, by repute Shimmering Colours: Monochromes from the Yuan to Qing Periods,
The Zhuyuetang Collection, Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong
來源： Kong, 2005, p. 118, no.55.
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