Lot 216
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Two famille rose 'Baragon Tumed' bowls, Daoguang
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Two famille rose 'Baragon Tumed' bowls, Daoguang

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Two famille rose 'Baragon Tumed' bowls, Daoguang
Each enamelled on the exterior with leaf-shaped lappets of Immortals and emblems of the 'Seven Regal Treasures' over flower-heads and waves around the foot, and iron-red Buddhist emblems around the rim, the interior with a pink lotus flower head centred by a double cakra motif, iron-red Mongolian script marks to bases -- maximum 8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Larger bowl: Christie's South Kensington, 27 June 1996, lot 489.
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Lot Essay

Part of a service made for a granddaughter of the Daoguang Emperor to celebrate her marriage in 1842 to a Mongolian Prince of the Tumed banner.
A smaller bowl is in the British Museum, illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. CX11, fig. 1.

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