CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE À SIX CARACTÈRES EN CACHET EN BLEU SOUS COUVERTE ET ÉPOQUE YONGZHENG (1723-1735)

The design of the bajixiang and the shape of this very rare stembowl may be found on a Xuande-marked blue and white prototype in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Pierson, Designs as Signs, London, 2001, fig. 81.The closest comparisons are two yellow-enamelled stembowls of this silhouette and similarly incised with the bajixiang, both with Yongzheng marks: the first previously from the collections of Messrs. Sparks and W. A. Younger, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1961, pl. XXXVI, fig. 2; and the other sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 1139.
For an identical green-glazed Yongzheng example, see Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1361 (HKD 1,320,000).