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A pair of rare and important Daoguang mark and period Canton…
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Auckland
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22-Mar-2011
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A pair of rare and important Daoguang mark and period Canton porcelain bowls. With monochrome lime-green enamelled interiors, painted in the famille rose palette to the exterior with an encircling tribute scene, beneath a rim patterned with gilt quatrefoil diaper motifs on a cobalt ground. Six character iron-red seal mark of Daoguang (1820 - 1850) under the foot, reserved in a square cartouche on a conforming limegreen glazed ground. The finely painted tribute scene reveals the Emperor carrying a baton of office, an attendant behind him with a fan standing in a walled garden. Eleven courtiers and nobles proceed towards him each carrying a bough or stem of a flowering plant, including peony, lotus, magnolia and chrysanthemum. These two bowls are part of a known and recorded service either purchased by or commissioned specifically for John Reeves (1774-1856). Reeves went to China in 1812 and subsequently became Chief Inspector of Tea for the East India Company in Canton. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817, and as a keen naturalist, instructed by Sir 13 Joseph Banks the Society’s President, he sent living specimens of Chinese flowering plants back to England. Hence he was responsible for the introduction of many garden plants to the West including chrysanthemums, azaleas and wisteria. The appeal to Reeves of the tribute scene with numerous flowering specimens illustrated on the bowls is obvious. One with hairline at rim, the other with minute frit at rim. Cf. a similar pair of bowls with dishes offered by S Marchant & Sons, London in 2010 at £28,000. Diameter 10.6 cm Height 5.6 cm each.
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