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9A6fa*mille rose Baragon Tumed bowl 9A7fi*ne blue and white ‘nine dragons’ bottle vase

Daoguang, iron-red Baragon Tumed mark in Mongolian script Jiaqing seal mark and of the period
The exterior enamelled with eight variously-coloured bodhi leaves Vibrantly painted around the body and neck with nine five-clawed
containing various Buddhist symbols including a wheel of life, a kneeling dragons in energetic pursuit of a single flaming pearl, all amid cloud
bodhisattva, an elephant, a horse and a figure wielding a sword, each scrolls and flames, two of the dragons just visible emerging from
leaf raised on a flower and between animal heads suspending beaded foaming and whirling waves above a band of key-fret at the foot.
tassels, between borders of shou characters alternating with the Eight 33cm (13in) high
Buddhist Symbols, bajixiang, at the foot and rim, the interior with a lotus £8,000 - 12,000
blossom in the well. HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000
18.5cm (7¼in) diam. 清嘉慶 青花九龍紋瓶 青花「大清嘉慶年製」篆書款
£2,000 - 3,000 Provenance: a European private collection
HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000 來源：歐洲私人收藏
清道光 粉彩七珍八寶紋碗 礬紅「土木特旗右旗」蒙文款 See a similar blue and white vase, Jiaqing seal mark and period, from the
Provenance: a European private collectionate collection Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
來源：歐洲私人收藏 of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red
The Baragon Tumed porcelain pieces such as the present lot appear to (III), Beijing ,2010, pl.143. A related vase sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8
have been made at the Imperial factories at Jingdezhen as part of a April 2010, lot 1876.
service commissioned to celebrate the marriage of one of the daughters
of the Daoguang Emperor to a Mongolian prince in 1842. Pieces from
this service bear the two-character Mongolian name of the prince, who
belonged to the Tumed group or clan.
Compare similar bowls also with Baragon Tumed marks sold in these
rooms on 10 November 2011, lots 260, 261 and 262, and another pair
of bowls formerly in the Weishaupt Collection, also sold in thess rooms
on 10 November 2011, lots 267. A further very similar bowl sold at
Christies’s New York, 21 March 2013, lot 903.

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