Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
The Legacy of Cixi. Late Qing Porcelain from the Barbara Jean Levy Collection
A famille-rose 'Dayazhai' 'lotus and egret' circular box and cover, Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, circa 1876 | 清光緒 約1876年 粉彩路路連科紋蓋盒 《大雅齋》《天地一家春》《永慶長春》款
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September 20, 05:51 PM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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A famille-rose 'Dayazhai' 'lotus and egret' circular box and cover
Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, circa 1876
光緒 約1876年 粉彩路路連科紋蓋盒 《大雅齋》《天地一家春》《永慶長春》款
the cover with a three-character Dayazhai mark and a five-character Tiandi yi jia chun oval seal mark, the base of the box with a four-character Yongqing changchun mark, all in iron red (2)
Diameter 12½ in., 31.5 cm
Sotheby's London, 16th June 1998, lot 288.
倫敦蘇富比1998年6月16日，編號288
The present box, finely painted with a bucolic scene of egrets amidst lotus, belongs to a group of Dayazhai wares of various forms painted with similar scenes on a white ground. The original drawing for the design is preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Guanyang ciqi: Gugong bowuyuancang Qing dai zhici guanyang yu yuyao ciqi [Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain: Official Porcelain Designs and Imperial Qing Dynasty Porcelains in the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2007, pl. 44, where it is illustrated alongside an almost identical box and cover, a bowl, dish, zhadou and two stem bowls of the same design, pp 189-191.