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A yellow-ground famille-rose 'dragon' altar vessel and cover (Deng), Seal mark and period of Daoguang | 清道光 黃地粉彩蟠龍紋豋 《大清道光年製》款

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September 20, 05:51 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A yellow-ground famille-rose 'dragon' altar vessel and cover (Deng)

Seal mark and period of Daoguang

清道光 黃地粉彩蟠龍紋豋 《大清道光年製》款


the base of the vessel and the interior of the cover each with a six-character seal mark in iron red (2)


Height 10⅝ in., 27 cm

Collection of Solomon E. Shahmoon (d. 1987), acquired in Shanghai between 1912 and 1949, and thence by descent. 


所羅門•斯文(1987年逝)收藏,於1912年至1949年之間得於上海,此後家族傳承

According to the Qing imperial document Huangchao liqi tushi [The illustrated regulations for ceremonial paraphernalia of the Qing dynasty], vessels of this specific type and decoration were positioned at the main hall of Taimiao (Imperial Ancestral Temple) (fig. 1).