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A PAIR OF COBALT BLUE GLAZED BOWLS
Jingweitang zhi marks, 18th-19th century A pair of cobalt blue bowls of this size bearing Jingweitang zhi marks
of deeply rounded sides, each with iron-brown wash on the everted was sold at Bonhams New York, 19 March 2018, lot 8067.
rim and glazed in deep cobalt blue on the exterior, the base with
Jingweitang zhi 敬畏堂製 hall mark in underglaze blue within double The mark Jingweitang zhi was recorded by Chen Liu (1863-1929),
square. sobriquet Jiyuan sou, in his 1906 publication Tao ya describing the
6 5/8in (17.1cm) diam.; 3 1/4in (8.5cm) high porcelain made only in celadon wares, but as Wilson stresses in Rare
Marks on Chinese Ceramics, London, 1998, pp. 114-115, no. 47,
$5,000 - 8,000 where the author illustrates a celadon bowl bearing Jingweitang zhi
mark, “not all vessels with this mark are celadon-glazed.”
十八世紀 藍釉碗一對 《敬畏堂製》雙框款
Scholars have yet to locate sufficient evidence to identify the owner
Provenance of the Jingweitang zhi-marked porcelains. Wang Qingzheng has
Stuart Hilbert, Michigan, purchased in the late 1980’s suggested in Jianming taoci cidian that this group of porcelains
belonged to the Manchu high official Agedunbu, while Yang Tingfu
出處： recorded in Qing ren shiming biecheng zihao suoyin that Jingweitang
1980 年代晚期購自密西根 Stuart Hilbert was the studio name of Li Hu (zi Duanren, hao Zhucun), a native of
Cixi, near the present day Ningbo in Zhejiang province. When the
studio name is associated with more than one person it is necessary
to find further documentation, which oftentimes recorded in private
letters and random notes.

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