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THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925
785
A BLUE-GLAZED STEM BOWL
AND A COVER, DOU
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER IMPRESSED
SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
(1796-1820)
The bowl is molded with a wide band of diamond-
shaped diaper beneath a narrow band of key fret,
and is raised on a stem foot decorated in relief with
a double scrolling ruyi pattern. The domed cover is
surmounted by a double rope-twist handle. Both
are covered inside and out with a glaze of brilliant
blue color that covers the impressed seal marks
inside the foot and cover.
9æ in. (14.5 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

Margaret Medley in ‘The Illustrated Regulations
for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Ch’ing
Dynasty, T.O.C.S., vol. 31, 19657-59, pp. 95-105,
pl. 39a, illustrates a blue-glazed dou and cover
with Qianlong marks in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, and notes, p. 100, that in the Winter
Solstice sacrifce held in the Temple of Heaven
in 1748, blue porcelain vessels were used for the
frst time, as stipulated by Emperor Qianlong, and
that these sacrifcial rites continued throughout
the Qing dynasty.

Two blue-glazed stem bowls and covers with
Qianlong marks are illustrated in The World’s
Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 12, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (II), no.
155. A Qianlong-marked blue glazed dou and
cover was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong 7 July
2003, lot 609; and a Daoguang-marked example
was sold at Christie’s New York, 15-16 September
2011, lot 1611. A similarly glazed Xianfeng-marked
dou and cover, with diferent molded decoration
and a plain loop handle on the cover, is illustrated
in Shimmering Colours - Monochromes of the
Yuan to Qing Periods: The Zhuyuetang Collection,
Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, 2005, pp. 132-33, no. 65.
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