Lot 3473
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A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE OVAL BOX AND COVER
A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE OVAL BOX AND COVER
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A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE OVAL BOX AND COVER

HOUZHITANG ZHI IRON-RED HALL MARK, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE OVAL BOX AND COVER
HOUZHITANG ZHI IRON-RED HALL MARK, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
Of oval form with deep sides slightly belling out towards the rim, the box is decorated in famille rose enamels around the exterior with four lotus sprays below a floral band. The cover is similarly decorated and surmounted by a moulded peach-form finial.
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

No other example bearing the current hall mark appears to be published with exception of a nearly identical box and cover in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Zhao Congyue 'Daoguang yuyong tangmingkuan ciqi (Daoguang hall-marked porcelains) (II)', Forbidden City, Beijing, 2011, vol. 199, p. 76, no. 21. The marks on these two examples appear to have been written by the same hand as some of Shendetang-marked pieces, such as a famille rose 'dragon boats' bowl, see ibid, no. 16.

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