Lot 723. An Imperial yellow-glazed bowl, Hongzhi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1488-1505); 7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 225,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

The bowl is potted with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, and covered inside and out with a glaze of soft egg yolk-yellow tone. 

Property from the estate of Dr. John D. Constable.

Note: A Hongzhi-marked and period yellow-glazed bowl of slightly smaller size (18.5 cm. diam.) in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 43, no. 38. Another example, also of larger size (20.3 cm.), from the Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Hall Collection, was included in the exhibition The Ceramic Art of China, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1971, no. 161.

For examples sold at auction, compare a bowl of a slightly smaller size (18.4 cm. diam.) sold at Sotheby's London, 13 May 2015, lot 112. Another example, also smaller in size (16 cm.), was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2010, lot 69. A further example, previously in the collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall, was sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 91.

A yellow-glazed bowl, Hongzhi mark and period (1488-1505); 18.4cm., 7 1/2 in. Sold for 30,000 GBP at Sotheby's London, 13 May 2015, lot 112. Photo Sotheby's

 Cf. my post: A yellow-glazed bowl, Hongzhi mark and period (1488-1505)

Previously in the collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall. A yellow-glazed bowl, Hongzhi Mark and Period (1488-1505);  diameter 6 1/4 in., 16 cm. Sold for 34,375 USD at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2010, lot 69. Photo Sotheby's

Cf. my post: Two yellow-glazed bowls, Hongzhi Mark and Period @ Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2010 New York

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 22 - 23 March 2018, New York