TIHEDIAN IRON-RED SEAL MARK IN A LINE, GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)

Details

A VERY RARE LARGE DAYAZHAI-TYPE YELLOW-GROUND FISH BOWL
TIHEDIAN IRON-RED SEAL MARK IN A LINE, GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
The large bowl is sturdily potted with rounded sides decorated in black grisaille with leafy peony branches issuing large blooms in various stages of growth against a bright yellow-ground.

20 7/8 in. (53 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Yangzhitang Collection, sold at Christie’s Singapore,
30 March 1997, lot 383
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3483

Literature

Ronald W. Longsdorf, ‘The Imperial Tongzhi Wedding Porcelain’, Orientations, October 1996, p. 71, fig. 5
Christie’s Hong Kong, Christie’s Asia 30 Anniversary, Hong Kong, 2016, pp.80-81

Exhibited

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue no. 119
National Museum of History, Imperial Porcelain of Late Ch’ing from the Kwan Collection, Taipei, 1985, Catalogue no. 119

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Lot Essay

The Tihedian (Hall of Manifest Harmony) was one of the six palaces in the northwestern sector of the Forbidden City where the Empress Dowager Cixi lived during much of her tenure as Regent to her son, Emperor Tongzhi. Special porcelains such as the present example, were designed and produced for several of these palaces.
Compare to a turquoise-ground grisaille-decorated fishbowl in the Chuxiugong (Palace of Concentrated Beauty), Beijing, illustrated in The Forbidden City, The Forbidden City Publishing House, Beijing, 1988; and a massive pair of yellow-ground Tihedian-marked fishbowls sold at Christie’s New York, 29 November 1984, lot 577.

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