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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CHICAGO COLLECTION (mark)

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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED LIME-GREEN-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE QUADRILOBED TRAY

JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The quadrilobed tray is inscribed in iron red within a cartouche of conforming shape with an imperial
poem followed by a dingsi cyclical date corresponding to 1797, succeeded by the two characters yuzhi and
two seals, Jia and Qing. The well is decorated with a band of detached composite foral sprays, beneath
a further band of foral sprays of larger size on the sides, which is repeated on the exterior. The base is
covered with a lime-green enamel reserving the reign mark in the centre.
6¡ in. (16.3 cm.) wide

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Collection of Chin Hai Wang, acquired in Taiwan before 1964, and thence by descent within the family.

The poem, composed by the Jiaqing Emperor, praises the pleasure of drinking tea and appears on tea
trays and tea pots of diferent palettes, and is translated by S.W. Bushell in Oriental Ceramic Art, London,
1981, p. 239.
清嘉慶 粉彩御題詩海棠形洗 礬紅六字篆書款

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