QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The Xingyouheng Tang mark has traditionally been associated with the fifth Prince Ding, Zaiquan, a great, great grandson of the Emperor Qianlong. Scholars dated items with this mark to the Daoguang period, or assumed the Hall mark was added to pieces produced in earlier periods that were acquired by Zaiquan. Recent scholarship suggests that the Hall name may have been in use at a much earlier date as discussed by C. Randall, The Brush and the Stone, The Dr. Dean Edell Collection of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 104-107.