Lot Essay
Compare the nearly identical plaque dated to the Qianlong period illustrated in Yinliuzhai shuoci yizhu (Commentary on Porcelain from the Studio of Drinking Streams), Beijing, 2005, p. 424, fig. 9-15.
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18TH CENTURY
Details
AN IRON-RED-ENAMELLED AND GILT-DECORATED DAJI WALL PLAQUE
18TH CENTURY
The plaque is molded in the form of a double-gourd supported on an ornate wood-simulated stand, and tied at the narrow waist with a turquoise-enamelled sash, all below a large gilded bat at the mouth rim. The upper body is gilded with the character da within a medallion surrounded by five blue-enameled bats against a gilded brocade and iron-red ground, and the lower body is similarly decorated with the character ji.
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
18TH CENTURY
The plaque is molded in the form of a double-gourd supported on an ornate wood-simulated stand, and tied at the narrow waist with a turquoise-enamelled sash, all below a large gilded bat at the mouth rim. The upper body is gilded with the character da within a medallion surrounded by five blue-enameled bats against a gilded brocade and iron-red ground, and the lower body is similarly decorated with the character ji.
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
Provenance
Shreve, Crump and Low, Inc., Boston, 1983.