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A GILT-DECORATED FAMILLE-ROSE ‘DAJI’ ‘DOUBLE GOURD’
PLAQUE

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG – JIAQING PERIOD

清乾隆至嘉慶 粉彩描金綏帶福壽「大吉」葫蘆掛屏

moulded after a flattened beribboned double-gourd vase
resting on a short foot and supported on a simulated wood
stand, rendered with an iron-red surface picked out in gilt with
a diapered ground, framing a gilt-rimmed white medallion
on each bulb, the medallions enclosing the characters da
and ji (‘great happiness’) respectively and encircled with
five outstretched blue-outlined bats, all above a ruyi border
skirting the foot, the shaped plaque further rendered with a
billowing turquoise ribbon tied around the constricted waist
and surmounted by a large gilt bat at the mouth-rim, affixed to
a wood frame
with frame 35 cm, 13¾ in.

HK$ 150,000-180,000
US$ 19,200-23,000

Gourd-shaped vases inscribed with the characters daji (great
happiness) are traditional good luck charms. Compare a
daji plaque sold in these rooms, 2nd May 1995, lot 156; and
another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th October 2001,
lot 743, and again in these rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 3189.
See also a similar daji hanging vase in the Shanghai Museum,
illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and
Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, pl. 70.