1830-1850

Details

A PAIR OF 'BARAGON TUMED'-TYPE BOWLS AND DISHES
1830-1850
Each deep bowl decorated in bright tones of famille rose on the exterior with seven leaf-shaped reserves alternately decorated with Buddhist figures and auspicious animals or objects and supported on a blossom floating on a band of waves, between borders of shou characters and Buddhist emblems, with a stylized lotus and double vajra design in the center of the interior, the pair of dishes similarly decorated, each base with a two-character seal mark in iron red
Bowls and dishes: 7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam. (4)

Provenance

Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, no. 128.
Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 2000, lot 169.

Further details

See illustration of two

Lot Essay

A similar bowl is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CXII (1), where the author describes the mark as being in Mongolian script, and reading 'Baragon Tumed', identifying it as 'part of a service made for a granddaughter of Tao Kuang who married a Mongolian prince of the Tumed banner'. The author further notes, p. 72, that the set was made at the Imperial factories to celebrate the marriage.

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