IRON-RED 'BARAGON TUMED' MARK IN MONGOLIAN SCRIPT, 19TH CENTURY

Details

A famille rose 'baragon tumed' bowl
Iron-red 'baragon tumed' mark in Mongolian script, 19th Century
Enamelled to the exterior with the Buddhist emblems of the 'Seven Regal Treasures', including the Wheel of the Law, elephant, horse, jewel, the Queen, the Minister and the General, supported on lotus blossoms above stylised waves and rocks and below a band of tasselled lion-mask lappets, the interior with a single lotus flower head surrounded by the baji xiang
12.3 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar cups from the Weishaupt collection is illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, no. 54. See also a bowl of the same design and the 'Baragon Tumed' Mongolian script mark, illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1987, pl. CXII. These cups form part of a service made at the Imperial factories to celebrate the marriage of one of the Daoguang Emperor's daughters to a Mongolian prince of the Tumed banner in 1842.

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