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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1628
1628 (mark) A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘BARAGON
TUMED’ CUPS
DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850), ‘BARAGON
TUMED’ MARKS IN MONGOLIAN SCRIPT IN
IRON RED
Each cup is enameled on the exterior with
the Buddhist emblems of the ‘Seven Regal
Treasures’, including the Wheel of the
Law, Elephant, Horse, Jewel, the Queen,
the Minister, and the General, within leaf-
shaped panels supported on lotus blossoms
above stylized waves and rocks and below
a band of tasselled lion-mask lappets, all
between bands of shou characters separated
by Buddhist emblems, the interior with a
single lotus.
3º in. (8.2 cm.) diam., box (2)
$6,000-8,000
The ‘Baragon Tumed’ mark on the base identifes
the bowl as part of a service made at the imperial
factories to celebrate the marriage of one of the
Daoguang emperor’s daughters to a Mongolian
prince of the Tumed Banner in 1842.
清道光 粉彩七政寳紋杯一對 礬紅蒙文款
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