DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

The present lot is accompanied by a certificate of antiquity from Hong Kong Art Craft Merchants Association issued in 1978.

The delightful design on the present vase is usually found on dishes from earlier reigns, such as a Yongzheng-marked dish decorated with similar iron-red Indian lotus blooms borne on leafy vines, sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 349.

An identical Daoguang-marked vase of the same shape and size is in the collection of the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The Chinaware Volume The First Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 100-101, no. 5 (fig. 1).