CAIHUA TANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER HALL MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'CHICKEN' DISH
CAIHUA TANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER HALL MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Of shallow, rounded form supported on a low tapered foot, the exterior decorated with hens and roosters in a continuous garden scene, with bamboo, peony, chrysanthemum and narcissus sprays growing beside rockwork, picked out in green, pink, blue, yellow, brown and black, the medallion in the interior painted in a similar palette depicting a rooster and hen below a plantain tree
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the base of these pieces, Caihua Tang zhi, may be translated as reading 'Made for the Hall of Many Coloured Flowers'. This Hall appears to have been established in the Forbidden City in Beijing during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and continued to be used by a number of his successors. Porcelain with various types of decoration are known bearing this hall mark, including a Qianlong doucai dish with lamaist design and the mark in overglaze iron red illustrated by M. Wilson in Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, Percival David Foundation/Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1998, pp. 34-5, no. 7; and a Qianlong vessel with the mark in underglaze cobalt blue illustrated by Lu Ming Hua in Wang Qingzheng (ed.), Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 206, fig. 22.

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