DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

細節

A FINE FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND TIBETAN-STYLE VASE
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Inspired by a Buddhist metal form, the globular body raised on a spreading foot bordered in petals and decorated with the bajixiang and lotus sprays arranged in two registers, the domed bottom section of the neck molded and painted with multi-colored petals and the upper cylindrical section decorated on the deep sides and canted top with scrolling foliate sprays, with a pink band dotted in blue encircling the mouth rim, all reserved on a soft lemon-yellow ground
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high, wood stand

來源

J.M. Hu Family Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1985, lot 75.

拍品專文

The form of this vessel is taken from a Tibetan metalwork original; its name, Bumpa, is transliterated from the Tibetan word for 'vase'. The Bumpa was used as a sacrificial utensil container for herbs placed on an altar before the image of Buddha. For a silver example see, Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace, Beijing, 1992, p. 190, no. 146. This metalwork shape is also imitated in the ceramic form as seen illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 59; where the author suggests that the vessel simulated inlaid pewter.

Examples decorated in the famille rose palette are known, differing only by their colored enamel ground. Compare three pairs of these vases from the Fonthill Heirlooms, the Alfred Morrison Collection, sold in our London rooms, 8 October 1971: the first pair, lot 71, designed with a pink ground; lot 72, a ruby-red ground; and lot 73, an imperial yellow ground.