Lot 303
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A FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' BOWL
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A FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' BOWL

DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'BAJIXIANG' BOWL
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The bowl is delicately potted with tall rounded sides rising to a flared rim, supported on a short tapered foot. The exterior is intricately decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, below a key-fret border encircling the mouth rim and above a band of ruyi around the foot.
4 ¼ in. (11 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012, lot 316.
Formerly in the collection of Mulin Qian (d. circa 1940), Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff of the Central Military Commission, China.
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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot to another Daoguang bowl similarly decorated with bajixiang in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum 39 Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 232, no. 207. Also see a later Tongzhi bowl with an almost identical form and decoration in the Simon Kwan collection, included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, illustrated in the catalogue, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, p. 105, no. 97.

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