DAOGUANG INCISED SEAL MARKS WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF YELLOW-GLAZED OVOID JARS
DAOGUANG INCISED SEAL MARKS WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Each raised on a shallow foot and with a waisted neck rising to a lipped rim, covered overall with a glaze of rich egg yolk-yellow tone, the base similarly glazed
9½ in. (24 cm.) high, wood covers (2)

Provenance

V. Everit Macy, New York, collected in China in the 1890s and thence by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

One of a pair of similarly glazed jars with the same unusual large incised Daoguang seal mark, but with covers, is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, nos. A 457 and 458, and the mark on one of these jars is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, p. 208, no. 295.

The shape and color of these Daoguang covered jars is most likely based on earlier Ming dynasty prototypes, such as the Jiajing example in the Percival Foundation, London, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, op. cit, p. 196, pl. 257.

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