Property from an Old English Private Collection
An 'Imperial yellow'-glazed 'bajixiang' stem bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng
Lot closes
May 15, 12:48 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Starting Bid
9,000 GBP
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Description
the interior of the stem with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 17.7 cm, 7 in.
Collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968).
Sotheby's London, 23rd October 1953, lot 11.
John Sparks Ltd., London.
Collection of Sir Alfred Aykroyd (1894-1965).
Sotheby's London, 17th May 1966, lot 40.
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 2713.
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.
