AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE 'BARAGON TUMED' VASE

DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE 'BARAGON TUMED' VASE
DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
The ovoid body painted in bright tones of famille rose with six leaf-shaped panels alternately decorated with Buddhist figures or auspicious animals or objects supported on flowers floating on a wave band above a band of alternating iron-red Buddhist Emblems and shou characters encircling the foot, which are repeated on the shoulder, with a band of upright leaf tips at the base of the neck and a ruyi band hung with pendent beaded chains at the top of the neck below the out-turned flower-form rim, with an iron-red two-character mark in Mongolian script on the base
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, wood stand, box

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Lot Essay

It is rare to find this pattern painted on a vase, as it is more usually seen on bowls and dishes. A bowl with this pattern in the British Museum is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CXII (1), where the author describes the mark as being in Mongolian script, and reading 'Baragon Tumed', identifying it as "part of a service made for a granddaughter of Tao Kuang who married a Mongolian prince of the Tumed Banner." The author further notes, p. 72, that the set was made at the Imperial factories to celebrate the marriage. A pair of bowls and dishes of this pattern was sold in these rooms, 22 March 2007, lot 400.

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