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A VERY RARE UNDERGLAZE-
BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-
ENAMELED BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CAIRUN TANG ZHI
MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN
A DOUBLE CIRCLE
The bowl is fnely potted with deep, rounded sides that rise to a
slightly everted rim, and is decorated on the exterior with three
fowering branches fanked by lingzhi fungus at their base.
6¬ in. (16.7 cm.) diam.

$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Mrs. Joseph Regenstein (1926-2004) Collection, Chicago,
before 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1970.
The very rare hall mark, Ciarun Tang zhi (Made for the Hall
Enriched with Brilliance), is recorded by Gerald Davison in
The New & Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics,
Somerset, 2010, p. 104 and p. 266, no. 1263, where it is
attributed to the Qianlong period.
A virtually identical Cairun Tang zhi-marked bowl of
approximately the same size (16.5 cm. diam.) is illustrated
by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. 4, Painted and
Polychrome Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Geneva, 1974,
no. A 585.
清乾隆 黃地青花折枝花卉紋盌
雙圈 「彩潤堂製」 楷書款

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