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

Compare to a very similar example with gilt rims in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 223; another Yongzheng bowl and cover of this pattern in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 65; other bowls in public and private collections include the British Museum example, illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, pl. LV, fig. 1; three in the Shanghai Museum, one missing its cover, one of which is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, Kyoto, 1981, vol. 21, pl. 104; and one from the Pilkington Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 55. The present lot appears to be one of the only two examples of this type that have appeared on the market recently.