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Detail lot 367

Three doucai jardinières belonging to the Imperial ‘birthday’ group have 〥鋅♲湱겳蔅渝⢿ⴕ询Ⰽ䁘佦㹨⽈暟ꤎⰦ
remained in the Palace collections. An elongated hexagonal example ♧ツⰙ倰䕎螦蔅〡粭嵳㾋幑㡽㕬⿻➲➃牝
with a waisted foot, shaped rim, and an image of male immortals by 㡽㕬询⻍❩佦㹨⽈暟ꤎ⵹鶤ⴀ贖管贫192
a roiling sea is now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, ibid., cat. no. 192 㕬♧Ⱖ✳捀㥶䠑駈询〵⻍㕜用佦㹨⽈暟
( g. 1). A second jardinière with this shape and subject, but supported ꤎꏗ倰耂⿻㾅䘋➋⵹鶤ⴀ贖㕬晝289Ⱖ♲
on ruyi feet, is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, ず询〵⻍㕜用佦㹨⽈暟ꤎツⰙ倰䕎㥶䠑駈鯺
illustrated by Wen C. Fong and James C. Y. Watt, op. cit., pl. 289. The շ佦㹨询櫙幢䕙櫙♧ո껻度1969䎃㕬晝5
third of this type, also in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is of ⧍侚豤㺢嫲剎㈒♧㼩⢿蔅〡粭麥來➲➃㕬
hexagonal form set on ruyi feet, illustrated in Porcelain of the National ㈒1979䎃7剢10傈管贫175〥嫲♧⢿粭➲➃
Palace Museum: Enameled Ware of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 㕬螦〡駈귇Ꟛ⯕㈒껻度⢕㡦䖤2005䎃11剢
1969, pl. 5. A related pair of elongated hexagonal jardinières with male 28傈管贫1336ⱄ嫲♧⢿粭➲➃㕬螦〡㥶
Daoist immortals and lobed rims sold at Sotheby’s London, 10th July 䠑駈㈒껻度豤㺢嫲1974䎃10剢31傈荛11剢1傈
1979, lot 175. A similar example with male immortals, a shaped rim, and 管贫271䖕僒䩛倴秣秉⢕㡦䖤2011䎃9剢15荛
a diaper pattern around the waisted foot sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 16傈管贫1549⟃♳䨾⴪蔅渝⢿䎃妵剅㻨㖳
28th November 2005, lot 1336. Another jardinière, also with male Daoist 莅劥ㅷ湱ず
immortals and a shaped rim but resting on ruyi feet sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 31st October – 1st November 1974, lot 271 and again at
Christie’s New York, 15th-16th September 2011, lot 1549. In each case,
the reign mark is written in the same manner with a vertical stroke at the
interior of the ‘moon’ radical in ‘Qing’.

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