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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).
5ƒ in. (14 cm.) diam. (2)
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000
PROVENANCE
Erik Holmberg (1888-1972) Collection, no. k72
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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