A rare lavender-glazed bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 天藍釉敞口盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Collection of H.R.N. Norton, until 1962.

Sotheby's London, 5th November 1963, lot 197.

John Sparks Ltd, London.

Bluett & Son Ltd, 16th December 1986.

Marchant, London, 16th June 1987.

A Greek private collection.

Sotheby's London, 7th November 2012, lot 273.

H.R.N. Norton 收藏，至1962年

倫敦蘇富比1963年11月5日，編號197

John Sparks Ltd，倫敦

Bluett & Son Ltd，1986年12月16日

馬錢特，倫敦，1987年6月16日

希臘私人收藏

倫敦蘇富比2012年11月7日，編號273

A pair of Yongzheng mark and period bowls covered overall in a clair-de-lune glaze was included in the exhibition Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 148; and another pair, from the Sir Joseph E. Hotung Family trust, was exhibited in Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2002, cat. no. 17. See also a pair included in the exhibition Qing Porcelain and Works of Art, Osaka City Museum, Osaka, 1994, cat. no. 111. See also a similar pair of bowls from the Zhuyuetang collection, included in the exhibition A Millennium of Monochromes, from the Great Tang to the High Qing, Fondation Baur, Geneva, 2018, cat. nos 87a-b.

For an example sold at auction, see the bowl formerly from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III (1905-1978), and later also exhibited in Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics and Works of Art, Marchant, London, 2013, cat. no. 26, sold in these rooms, 11th July 2020, lot 3106.