A rare White-Glazed Vase mark and period of Yongzheng

finely potted of ganlan form, rising in three elegant curves to incorporate the body swelling from the splayed foot and tapering gracefully below the trumpet mouth, covered overall in a brilliant white glaze, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle

Yongzheng vases of this beautifully balanced slender shape are rare, although the form is recorded in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 234, fig. 400, no. 15.  

This shape is also known from three blue-and-white vases of Yongzheng mark and period, painted with bats hovering around a fruiting and flowering peach tree: one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 188, pl. 17; one in the Shanghai Museum is published in Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 175; and a third from the J.M. Hu collection was sold in our New York rooms, 4^th June 1985, lot 25, and more recently from the collection of Robert Chang, 31^st October 2000, lot 815. See also a  famille-rose decorated vase of the same form and related peaches and bat design, from the Reid collections, was sold in these rooms, 7^th May 2002, lot 532.