YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD

Yongzheng-marked monochrome 'chrysanthemum' bowls are exceptionally rare. A Yongzheng-marked, celadon-glazed ‘chrysanthemum’ bowl of approximately the same size (18 cm. diam.), also potted with twenty-eight petals, in the Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Two, 1994-2010, p. 206, no. 860. The Meiyintang bowl was subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Meiyingtang Collection Part V: An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelains, 8 April 2013, lot 5. Another celadon-glazed example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 943. A further Yongzheng-marked ‘chrysanthemum’ bowl covered in a pale blue glaze, also potted with twenty-eight petals, was sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot 768.