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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
瑞士私人收藏藏品
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A rare Imperial famille rose purple-ground vase
Yong Qing Chang Chun, Tian Di Yi Jia Chun and Dayazhai marks,
Guangxu
The rounded sides unusually enamelled with a rich purple ground The mark Dayazhai (Studio of the Greater Odes) has been associated
decorated in shades of soft pink with peony and prunus flowers on leafy with the Dowager Empress Cixi. Although no such hall has been
stems and one blue blossom in front of delicate red grasses, a grisaille identified, a wooden framed plaque has been found in the Imperial
bird flying above the blossoms beside the characters Da Ya Zhai and workshops, bearing the characters Dayazhai and with one of two
the iron-red oval seal mark with two dragons encircling the characters seals reading Tiandi Yijia Chun: see Guo Xingkuan and Wang
Tian Di Yi Jia Chun, all above the foot with yellow and turquoise lappets Guangyao, Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007, pp.145-147. According
containing leafy scrolls and square scrolls and beneath the shoulder with to the authors, in the 12th year of Tongzhi (1873) work began on the
ruyi-shaped lappets with sprays of lotus buds and blossoms linked with restoration of the Yuanming Yuan, and by 1874, the interior of the
spiky stems to further sprays of lotus alternating between the lappets, Tiandi Yijia Chun would have been in need of furnishing.
the neck also with pink peony and lotus flowers and a single blue peony Rosemary Scott in her article For Her Majesty’s Pleasure - Dayazhai
beneath ruyi head under the lobed flaring rim, the interior of the neck Porcelain, published by Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008,
and the underside glazed turquoise. p.23, suggests that the new-style porcelains were not produced
42cm (16½in) high until the Guangxu reign, and by the second year of Guangxu, 4,922
£15,000 - 20,000 porcelains had been produced bearing both Dayazhai and Tiandi
HK$190,000 - 250,000 CNY150,000 - 200,000 Yijia Chun marks. As the restoration of the Yuanming Yuan had been
halted for economic reasons, the vessels would have been delivered
清光緒 御製粉彩藕荷紫地花鳥紋瓣口瓶 to the Forbidden City.
礬紅「永慶長春」、「大雅齋」楷書款及「天地一家春」篆書款 Compare related porcelain cups and bowls in the same purple-
Provenance: a Swiss private collection ground colour palette and bearing the same Dayazhai, Yong Qing
Chang Chun and Tian Di Yi Jia Chun marks illustrated by Guo
來源：瑞士私人收藏 Xingkuan and Wang Guangyao, Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007,
pp.202-203.
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