CHINA, QING DYNASTY, SHENDETANG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS IN IRON-RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

Shendetang is a hall mark reserved for a range of fine porcelains made for the Hall for the Cultivation of Virtue, a summer residence of the Emperor Daoguang. The mark is more usually found on vases decorated in the famille rose palette with flowering branches, often against a colored ground. Monochrome examples appear to be particularly rare and no other yellow-glazed vases of this form appear to have been published. A yellow-ground vase of related shape and size but decorated with scattered prunus and bamboo sprigs, from the J.T. Tai Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2010, lot 2129.