A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED 'SANDUO' STEM BOWL YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD |

finely potted with wide rounded sides rising from a splayed foot to a lobed rim, the exterior divided into six panels each enclosing blossoming and fruiting branches of pomegranate, peach and finger citron in shaped panels, above a border of six lingzhi sprays encircling the foot, a band of scrolls waves repeated on the inner and outer rims, the interior centered with a lobed cartouche enclosing a single branch of peaches, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue  

Acquired in China before 1949, and thence by descent.

The polished rim with a few small chips and minute frits; the stem bowl otherwise in overall good condition.
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Very similar Yongzheng mark and period stem bowls have sold in our London rooms, 9th December 1975, lot 209, and in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th November 1997, lot 1452.