Lot 3017. A blue and white 'Lotus and Bajixiang' stembowl, Seal mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 18.3 cm., 7 1/4  in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Lot sold  1,060,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's

well potted with deep rounded sides supported on a splayed hollow stem with a raised ring, brightly decorated in the Ming style around the exterior with a continuous meandering lotus scroll issuing eight large blossoms among dense foliage, each supporting one of the bajixiang, below a border of lingzhi at the rim and strapworks forming ruyi-heads around the base, the stem picked out with flower sprigs on the raised rib, between a 'classic' scroll above and petal panels below, the cobalt deliberately 'heaped and piled', the interior left white, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark within the interior of the stem

Provenance: J.E. Woodthorpe Collection (label).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 763.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 Oct 2013

'Lotus and Bajixiang' stembowl,