Lot 474. A blue-glazed stembowl, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735). Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 46,875 USD. Photo Sotheby's 2014.

the wide flared bowl resting on a hollow stem flaring toward the base, covered on the exterior with a deep cobalt-blue glaze stopping neatly under the white rim and just above the foot, the interior of the bowl and stem left white, the latter inscribed with a horizontal six-character mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Bluett & Sons, London.
Christie's London, 13th November 2001, lot 135.

Note: Yongzheng blue-glazed stembowls of this size and form are in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections. vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 233; in the Musée Guimet, Pairs, illustrated loc. cit., vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 165; and in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, included in Ireneus László Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. CIII, no. 277. Compare also a similar stembowl sold in our London rooms 10th November 2006, lot 618 and another, with a single raised filet around the foot, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 3062.

Sotheby's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART. 18 MARS 2014 - 19 MARS 2014. NEW YORK