A PAIR OF DAYAZHAI YELLOW-GROUND GRISAILLE-DECORATED JARDINIERES AND STANDS

GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A PAIR OF DAYAZHAI YELLOW-GROUND GRISAILLE-DECORATED JARDINIERES AND STANDS
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908)
Each jardinière is decorated with a bird on a flowering branch of peonies, beside an iron-red seal reading Tian di yi jia chun (spring throughout heaven and earth) and the characters Dayazhai (The Hall of Great Elegance). The stands are decorated with ruyi heads in grisaille to the rims and the bases each has an iron-red four-character mark reading Yong qing chang chun (eternal prosperity and spring).
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Erik Holmberg (1888-1972) Collection, no. k72

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Lot Essay

Erik Holmberg (1888-1972) from Sweden was a director at Handlesbanken and formed his collection in the 1950s and 1960s.

A bowl of the same pattern is illustrated by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1977, pl. CXV, no. 1. Also see a bowl and cover with this design illustrated by H. A. van Oort in Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1977, pl. 73, p. 60.

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