SHEN DE TANG ZHI MARK IN IRON-RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A FAMILLE ROSE BOTTLE VASE
SHEN DE TANG ZHI MARK IN IRON-RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
Painted with themes relating to the New Year celebration, depicting boys wearing fur jackets at play in a winter landscape, three shown beneath a prunus tree, two with their hands over their ears while the third lights fire crackers, and two others stand beneath a wintersweet tree on the other side, with melons, persimmons and a ruyi sceptre scattered about, all between decorative borders, the neck with lotus scrolls on a pink ground and flanked with a pair of iron-red dragon handles, the hallmark reserved in iron-red against a turquoise glaze which also covers the interior
11¾ in. (29.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's, Hong Kong, 16 January 1989, lot 706.
Weishaupt Collection, no. 208.

Literature

G. Weishaupt (ed.), Chinese and Japanese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries and their forerunners: from the Weishaupt Collection, Stuttgart, 2002, p. 44, no. 38.

Lot Essay

Compare three Shen de tang zhi-marked famille rose vases of similar shape, but with different decoration, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 39 - Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 213-15, nos. 188-90, and a Daoguang-marked famille rose vase of similar shape, p. 216, no. 191.
An almost identical Daoguang-marked vase, formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 597.

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