A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
4 More
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
7 More
Property from the Dawentang Collection
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE

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

Details
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS AT PLAY' SQUARE VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1998, lot 392
Literature
Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection, Vol. II, Hong Kong, 2019, pp.370-373, no. 57

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

Sign in
View condition report

Lot Essay

Small Yongzheng ‘boys’ square vases are rare. Compare a slightly smaller one from the collection of Miss Dorothy Bushell, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number: FE.118-1975; a similar one from the John Gardner Coolidge Collection, lent by Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge since 1946 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number: 46.802; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Au Bak Ling Collection, Volume II, 30 October 2025, lot 953.

More from Pearls of The Orient - Treasures from Hong Kong Private Collectors

View All
View All