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A TURQUOISE-GROUND FAMILLE- Compare a very similar box and cover sold 清光緒 松石綠地粉彩花鳥圖
ROSE ‘BIRD AND FLOWERS’ BOX AND at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2012, lot 捧盒
COVER 4260. The present box belongs to a group
QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD of porcelains associated with the Dowager 《永慶長春》款
Empress Cixi, often inscribed with Dayazhai
of globular form, vibrantly enameled in the or Yongqing changchun marks, or both. For
Dayazhai manner, the domed cover with a examples of similarly enameled turquoise-
songbird resting on a flowering branch with ground wares in the collection of the Palace
blooms, hydrangea, begonia, and prunus Museum, Beijing, see Guanyang yuci: gugong
in vibrant shades of pink, blue, and green, bowuyuancang qingdai zhici guanyang yu yuyao
all reserved on a turquoise ground, the box ciqi [Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain:
similarly decorated and with a flitting butterfly, The Palace Museum’s Collection of Official
the interior and recessed base glazed white, Porcelain Designs and Porcelains from Imperial
the latter with a four-character mark in iron red Kilns of the Qing Dynasty] Beijing, 2007, pp
reading Yongqing Changchun (‘Eternal joy and 206-209.
everlasting spring’) (2)
Diameter 9⅝ in., 24.3 cm $ 12,000-15,000

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