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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, VIRGINIA (another view)

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A RARE LARGE PALE YELLOW-ENAMELED INCISED BASIN
TIHEDIAN ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK,
TONGZHI-GUANGXU PERIOD (1862-1908)
The heavily potted basin has incised decoration of a fve-clawed dragon
leaping protectively around a faming pearl amidst fames in the center, six
panels of dragons and faming pearls reserved on a wan-diaper ground on the
interior and exterior walls, and bats swooping amidst clouds on the everted
rim, all under enamel of pale yellow color that also covers the base.
16º in. (41.3 cm.) diam.
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired in Hawaii, 1990s, and thence by descent to the present owner.

The Tihedian (Hall of Manifest Harmony) was one of the six palaces in the
northwestern sector of the Forbidden City where the Empress Dowager
Cixi lived during much of her tenure as Regent to her son, Emperor Tongzhi.
A circular box and cover, also with incised decoration and Tihedian zhi
seal mark under a soft lemon-yellow enamel, from the George Weishaupt
Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3338.
Three jardinières, also with incised decoration under a pale yellow enamel
were included in the exhibition, Treasures of the Palace Museum: Empress
Dowager Cixi’s Porcelain, the Capital Museum, Beijing, 2013.
清同治/光緒 黃釉暗刻龍紋大盆 《體和殿製》篆書刻款

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