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198 † The mark Dayazhai (Studio of the Greater Odes) has been associated
with the Dowager Empress Cixi. Although no such hall has been
A fine and rare large Dayazhai grisaille-enamelled identified, a wooden framed plaque has been found in the Imperial
yellow-ground vase workshops, bearing the characters Dayazhai and with one of two
Yong qing chang chun, Tian di yi jia chun and Dayazhai marks, seals reading Tiandi Yijia Chun: see Guo Xingkuan and Wang
Guangxu Guangyao, Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007, pp.145-147. According
The unusually large vase of elegant baluster form and enamelled in to the authors, in the 12th year of Tongzhi (1873) work began on the
grisaille around the body with leafy sprays of peony fruiting wisteria restoration of the Yuanming Yuan, and by 1874, the interior of the
entwined around slender branches on which a single singing bird Tiandi Yijia Chun would have been in need of furnishing.
perches, the branches surrounding the three-character mark Dayazhai Rosemary Scott in her article For Her Majesty’s Pleasure - Dayazhai
in iron-red, and a five-character seal mark Tian Di Yi Jia Chun Porcelain, published by Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008,
enclosed by a border of two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl, the p.23, suggests that the new-style porcelains were not produced
applied handles each shaped as a stylised blue-enamelled elephant until the Guangxu reign, and by the second year of Guangxu, 4,922
suspending gilt ring-handles from its trunk, the neck with four grisaille porcelains had been produced bearing both Dayazhai and Tiandi
lotus blossoms on a continuous foliate meander, two beneath a Yijia Chun marks. As the restoration of the Yuanming Yuan had been
pendent bat and all beneath a band of ruyi head at the rim. halted for economic reasons, the vessels would have been delivered
57.4cm (22 5/8in) high to the Forbidden City.
£80,000 - 120,000 Compare a pair of fishbowls decorated in a similar palette of grisaille
HK$1,000,000 - 1,500,000 CNY790,000 - 1,200,000 against a yellow ground sold which was in these rooms, 8 November
2012, lot 110.
清光緒 黃地墨彩花鳥紋雙象耳瓶
礬紅「永慶長春」、「大雅齋」楷書款及「天地一家春」篆書款
Provenance: an English private collection, Cambridgeshire
來源: 英國劍橋郡私人收藏
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