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AN IRON-RED-ENAMELLED AND GILT-
DECORATED DAJI WALL PLAQUE

18TH CENTURY
The plaque is molded in the form of a double-
gourd supported on an ornate wood-simulated
stand, and tied at the narrow waist with a
turquoise-enamelled sash, all below a large gilded
bat at the mouth rim. The upper body is gilded with
the character da within a medallion surrounded by
fve blue-enameled bats against a gilded brocade
and iron-red ground, and the lower body is similarly
decorated with the character ji.
13æ in. (35 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Shreve, Crump and Low, Inc., Boston, 1983.
Compare the nearly identical plaque dated to the
Qianlong period illustrated in Yinliuzhai shuoci
yizhu (Commentary on Porcelain from the Studio
of Drinking Streams), Beijing, 2005, p. 424,
fg. 9-15.
清十八世紀 珊瑚紅地粉彩描金「大吉」葫蘆瓷板

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