A PAIR OF COBALT BLUE GLAZED BOWLS Jingweitang zhi mark, Daoguang period (2)

A PAIR OF COBALT BLUE GLAZED BOWLS
Jingweitang zhi mark, Daoguang period
Each of deeply rounded sides with flaring brown-dressed rim, the interior glazed white, base with Jingwei Tang zhi four-character mark within double square.
5 1/2in (14.2cm) diam (2).
Footnotes:
道光時期 《敬畏堂製》雙框款 藍釉碗一對

The mark Jingweitang zhi was recorded by Chen Liu (1863-1929), sobriquet Jiyuan sou, in his 1906 publication Tao ya describing the porcelain made only in celadon wares, but as Wilson stresses in Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, London, 1998, pp. 114-115, no. 47, where the author illustrates a celadon bowl bearing the same mark, 'not all vessels with this mark are celadon-glazed.'

Scholars have yet to locate sufficient evidence to identify the owner of the Jingweitang zhi-marked porcelains. Wang Qingzheng has suggested in Jianming taoci cidian that this group of porcelains belonged to the Manchu high official Agedunbu, while Yang Tingfu recorded in Qing ren shiming biecheng zihao suoyin that Jingweitang was the studio name of Li Hu (zi Duanren, hao Zhucun), a native of Cixi, near the present-day Ningbo in Zhejiang province. When the studio name is associated with more than one person it is necessary to find further documentation, which oftentimes recorded in private letters and random notes.

Compare, for example, the pair of cobalt blue bowls bearing Jingweitang zhi marks sold at Bonhams New York, 21 March 2022, lot 163.

Condition Report: PLEASE NOTE: This report describes, but may not be limited to, major condition issues for the lot. Both bowls are in excellent condition with no crack and no break. One bowl with tiny pin pricks and iron spots on the interior, original to the making. Both bowls with tiny nicks to underside of the foot rim.