An 'Imperial yellow'-glazed 'bajixiang' stem bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng

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Property from an Old English Private Collection the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in underglaze blue Diameter 17.7 cm, 7 in. Examples of this stately form glazed in the imperial yellow of the Qing dynasty are exceedingly rare. Compare two similar 'bajixiang' stem bowls, including one from the Sir Percival David collection, now preserved in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Rosemary Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p. 41; and another in the Baur Collection, Geneva, published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, pl. 315. See also an example sold at Christie’s New York, 1st December 1988, lot 270; and a related stem bowl incised with the bajixiang emblems but with a white glaze, from Marchant, London, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 3520.

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