Lot 480. A rare Imperial blue and white 'bajixiang' stem cup, China, Yongzheng six-character mark and period. Estimate 50000/70000 €. Lot sold  75.000 €. Photo Nagel

finely potted, the rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim and supported on a tall spreading foot, delicately painted around the exterior with the bajixiang above a ruyi strapwork band and below double lines at the rim, the interior of the hollow foot with a six-character mark. H. 7,8/D.9,4 cm. Good condition

Notes: Similar examples are known following the fifteenth century prototypes, with six-character Chenghua marks inside the footrim. A larger Yongzheng example from the Collection of Edward T. Chow, sold at Sotheby's Hongkong 25th November 1980, lot 114, and of Sir Percival David, is illustrated in Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White , London, 1954, pl. 37, together with Chenghua original; another was included in the Special Exhibition of Chenghua Porcelain , National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976, cat.no. 66, together with the Chenghua original, no. 65. Two further Yongzheng examples in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, are illustrated in Ireneus László Legeza, Malcolm MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics , Oxford, 1972, pl. LXXI, nos. 202 and 203; another from the Tianminlou Collection is illustrated in Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5: Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares , Taipei, 1991, p.90 right; and one was included in the Kau Chi Society Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1983, cat.no. 114 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015