A Chinese Imperial iron-red and gilt sgraffiato-ground 'dragons' bowl and cover Qing...
A Chinese Imperial iron-red and gilt sgraffiato-ground 'dragons' bowl and cover
Qing dynasty, Daoguang period, Shengdetang zhi mark
Each enamelled and gilded en-suite with dragons chasing flaming pearls on a white enamel ground finely-incised with a wave pattern, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, with iron-red four character marks in regular script, 10.5cm diameter.
清道光 白地軋道礬紅描金繪龍紋蓋盌，礬紅楷書「慎德堂製」款
The ‘Hall of Prudent Virtue’ (慎德堂 Shengde tang), was Emperor Daoguang’s main residence, built within the ‘Old Summer Palace’ (圓明園 Yuanming yuan) between 1830 and 1831.
The first account of Imperial porcelain bearing a Shengde tang mark being commissioned is recorded within the archives of the Imperial Household Department: in the thirteenth year of his reign (1833), the Daoguang Emperor issued an edict ordering, by Imperial command, that a spittoon and sixty further pieces of porcelain with white interiors be made with a Shengdetang zhi four-character mark in regular script.
Cf. A bowl and cover of the same design is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Z. Congyue, Porcelains with Inscriptions of the Shendetang Collected by the Palace Museum, Beijing (2014), pp.122-125, no.27. See also Christie's New York, 26th March 2010, lot 1435 for a smaller pair of dishes of this design.
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A Chinese Imperial iron-red and gilt sgraffiato-ground 'dragons' bowl and cover
Qing dynasty, Daoguang period, Shengdetang zhi mark
Each enamelled and gilded en-suite with dragons chasing flaming pearls on a white enamel ground finely-incised with a wave pattern, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, with iron-red four character marks in regular script, 10.5cm diameter.
清道光 白地軋道礬紅描金繪龍紋蓋盌，礬紅楷書「慎德堂製」款
The ‘Hall of Prudent Virtue’ (慎德堂 Shengde tang), was Emperor Daoguang’s main residence, built within the ‘Old Summer Palace’ (圓明園 Yuanming yuan) between 1830 and 1831.
The first account of Imperial porcelain bearing a Shengde tang mark being commissioned is recorded within the archives of the Imperial Household Department: in the thirteenth year of his reign (1833), the Daoguang Emperor issued an edict ordering, by Imperial command, that a spittoon and sixty further pieces of porcelain with white interiors be made with a Shengdetang zhi four-character mark in regular script.
Cf. A bowl and cover of the same design is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Z. Congyue, Porcelains with Inscriptions of the Shendetang Collected by the Palace Museum, Beijing (2014), pp.122-125, no.27. See also Christie's New York, 26th March 2010, lot 1435 for a smaller pair of dishes of this design.
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