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Jingweitang was the studio name of Li Hu (alias Duanren, include a bowl and a dish in the Sir Percival David collection,
style name Zhucun) a native of Cixi, a city within the sub- now in the British Museum, London, the bowl included in the
provincial city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Ming Wilson, in Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, op.cit., cat. no. 47, and
the exhibition catalogue Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, the dish published in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1998, quotes Wang of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, coll. no.
Qingzheng to suggest that porcelains bearing the Jingweitang A568; and a covered bowl sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th
mark actually belonged to the Manchu high official Agedunbu May 2007, lot 1545.
(see p. 114). Although no supporting evidence is available,
However, not all vessels with this mark are celadon-glazed
Jingweitang wares were noted in Taoya [Ceramic Elegances]
which may be due to the continued use of the hall for
of 1906 by the government official Chen Liu (1863-1929) as
several generations and the subsequent later production of
porcelain with celadon glaze (ibid.).
porcelains; see a vase covered with a brown glaze in imitation
See a celadon-glazed bowl of comparable shape and mark, of a bronze vessel, illustrated in Qingdai ciqi shangjian
together with a matching cover, from the collection of E.T. [Appreciation of Qing Dynasty Porcelain], Shanghai, 1994,
Hall, sold at Christie’s London, 7th June 2004, lot 33 (part lot). pl. 151; and a pair of blue-glazed cups and saucers sold at
Vessels with the same mark, celadon glaze and brown rim also Christie’s New York, 18th September 2003, lot 355.