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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE EWER

DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1821-1850)

The ewer is superbly painted on each side with a quatrefoil lobed panel, one containing
two large ripe peaches, the other with berries on a leafy branch, the strap handle with
five lingzhi fruits and the spout with stylised scrolls.
10 ¡ in. (26.3 cm.) high, box

HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000

PROVENANCE

An English private collection
Sold at Bonham’s London, 12 May 2011, lot 332

Similar Daoguang marked ewers are recorded, one included in the Inaugural Exhibition,
Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1975, no. 104; and another sold
in our Singapore Rooms, The Yangzhitang Collection, 30 March 1997, lot 202.

It is likely that attractive design on the present ewer was copied from the Qianlong version,
which in turn was produced as a revival of the early Ming originals. Compare with the Yongle
period ewer of almost identical shape and design, excavated from the Yongle stratum in
Jingdezhen and illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen,
Taipei, 1996, pl. 59; and to a second Yongle ewer, similarly decorated but with quatrefoil
panels enclosing peach branches on both sides, ibid., pl. 58.

清道光 青花開光瑞果紋執壺 六字篆書款

來源
英國私人收藏
倫敦邦瀚斯，2011 年 5 月 12 日，拍品 332 號

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