Lot 865. A blue-glazed stem bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue in a line and of the period (1723-1735); 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 18,750. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020.

The exterior covered with an unctuous sapphire-blue glaze which pales at the rim and stops neatly at the foot, the interior of the bowl and foot left white.

Provenance: Kenny & Higgins Asian Art Inc., Washington D.C., 25 May 1985.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Note: A blue-glazed stem bowl of comparable size and similar form, also with a Yongzheng mark, was sold at Chinese Monochrome Porcelain from the Collection of the late Professor E.T. Hall, C.B.E.; Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 27.

Christie's. Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II, New York, 24 September 2020