Lot 3518. A rare lavender-glazed bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 12 cm, wood stand and Japanese wood box. Lot sold 1,512,000 HKD (Estimate : 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2022

Exhibited: Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics and Works of Art, Marchant, London, 2013, cat. no. 26.

Note: A pair of Yongzheng mark and period bowls covered overall in a clair-de-lune glaze was included in the exhibition Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 148; and another pair, from the Sir Joseph E. Hotung Family trust, was exhibited in Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2002, cat. no. 17. See also a pair included in the exhibition Qing Porcelain and Works of Art, Osaka City Museum, Osaka, 1994, cat. no. 111. See also a similar pair of bowls from the Zhuyuetang collection, included in the exhibition A Millennium of Monochromes, from the Great Tang to the High Qing, Fondation Baur, Geneva, 2018, cat. nos 87a-b.

For an example sold at auction, see the bowl formerly from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III (1905-1978), and later also exhibited in Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics and Works of Art, Marchant, London, 2013, cat. no. 26, sold in these rooms, 11th July 2020, lot 3106.