DAOGUANG/XIANFENG PERIOD (1821-1861)

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A SET OF FIVE 'BARAGON TUMED' CUPS
DAOGUANG/XIANFENG PERIOD (1821-1861)
Each cup painted 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, with a two-character iron-red mark in Mongolian script on each base
2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high, pewter stands, boxes (5)

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1949-1959.

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Lot Essay

A bowl with this pattern in the British Museum 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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