Lot 910. Property from the Dawentang Collection. A rare blue and white 'Boys at play' square vase, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1723-1735); 13 cm high. Price realised HKD 1,270,000 (Estimate HKD 600,000 – HKD 800,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2026

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1998, lot 392

Literature: Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection, Vol. II, Hong Kong, 2019, pp.370-373, no. 57.

Note: Small Yongzheng ‘boys’ square vases are rare. Compare a slightly smaller one from the collection of Miss Dorothy Bushell, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number: FE.118-1975; a similar one from the John Gardner Coolidge Collection, lent by Mrs. John Gardner Coolidge since 1946 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number: 46.802; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Au Bak Ling Collection, Volume II, 30 October 2025, lot 953.

Christie's. Pearls of The Orient - Treasures from Hong Kong Private Collectors, Hong Kong, 40 April 2026