Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. 26 March 2010. New York, Rockefeller Plaza
A rare pale café-au-lait-glazed anhua-decorated bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period (1723-1735)
Lot 1399. A rare pale café-au-lait-glazed anhua-decorated bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735); 5 5/8in. (14.4 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price realised USD 60,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010.
Incised with a band of conjoined lotus petals supporting peaches alternating with bats and wan emblems below a ruyi band suspending tassels, covered inside and out with a glaze of creamy yellow tone.
Provenance: Acquired circa 1960s-1974, and thence by descent within the family.
Note: No other bowl of this design appears to be published. There is a smaller Yongzheng-marked bowl (11.8 cm) covered inside and out with a similar buff-colored glaze but without any incised decoration, from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 306, pl. 135. See, also, a slightly larger bowl (15.9 cm) with similar glaze, but different anhua decoration, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 November 2005, lot 1307.