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

Collection of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968).

Sotheby's London, 23rd October 1953, lot 11.

John Sparks Ltd., London.

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 2713.

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.