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A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE ‘DAYAZHAI’ ‘PARROT 清光緒 約1876年 粉彩壽桃鸚鵡圖長方
AND PEACH’ RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRES 花盆一對
QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD, CIRCA 1876
each with a three-character Dayazhai mark and a five- 《大雅齋》《天地一家春》款
character Tiandi yi jia chun oval seal mark, all in iron red (2)
Length 7 in., 18 cm 來源
紐約佳士得1994年12月1日，編號446
PROVENANCE Ronald W. Longsdorf 收藏
Christie’s New York, 1st December 1994, lot 446.
Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf.
Among the thirty-one drawings for Dayazhai wares
commissioned from the Imperial Embroidery Workshop
in 1874 is a design for a ‘rectangular flowerpot of peach
blossoms and fruits’, where the notes specify that the
blooming peach branches be laden with ripe fruit, together
with a pair of parrots. Both the peach and parrot, with
their long lifespan, were popular symbols of longevity.
A drawing for the design is illustrated in Guanyang ciqi:
Gugong bowuyuancang Qing dai zhici guanyang yu yuyao ciqi
[Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain: Official Porcelain
Designs and Imperial Qing Dynasty Porcelains in the Palace
Museum], Beijing, 2007, pl. 31, where it is illustrated
alongside a purple-ground jardinière and stand of the same
design. Compare a single white-ground jardinière of the
same design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
Ying-Chen Peng, Artful Subversion. Empress Dowager Cixi’s
Image Making, Yale, 2023, p. 82, fig. 55.
$ 20,000-30,000

Design of a ‘parrot and peach’ rectangular jardinière, ink and color on paper, late Qing dynasty © The Palace Museum, Beijing
清末 粉彩壽桃鸚鵡花盆圖樣 設色紙本 © 故宮博物院，北京

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