A FINE AND LARGE YELLOW-GROUND GRISAILLE PAINTED DAYAZHAI-STYLE VASE

Estimated Value:

6.000 € - 10.000 €

Schätzpreis:

20.000 €

Description:

China, ong qing chang chun, Tian di yi jia chun and Dayazhai marks, Guangxu period
H. 42 cm
The large vase of elegant bottle form and enamelled in grisaille around the body with leafy sprays of peony and fruiting wisteria entwined around slender branches on which a single singing bird perches, the branches are below the three-character mark Dayazhai in iron-red, and a five-character seal mark Tian Di Yi Jia Chun enclosed by a border of two dragons pursuing a flaming pearl. Iron-red four-charcter mark Yong qing chang chun to base on a turquoise-gound.
From a North german private collection, in the family since the 1960s
The mark Dayazhai (Studio of the Greater Odes) has been associated with the Dowager Empress Cixi. Although no such hall has been identified, a wooden framed plaque has been found in the Imperial workshops, bearing the characters Dayazhai and with one of two seals reading Tiandi Yijia Chun: see Guo Xingkuan and Wang Guangyao, Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007, pp.145-147. According to the authors, in the 12th year of Tongzhi (1873) work began on the restoration of the Yuanming Yuan, and by 1874, the interior of the Tiandi Yijia Chun would have been in need of furnishing.
Rosemary Scott in her article For Her Majesty's Pleasure - Dayazhai Porcelain, published by Christie's Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, p.23, suggests that the new-style porcelains were not produced until the Guangxu reign, and by the second year of Guangxu, 4,922 porcelains had been produced bearing both Dayazhai and Tiandi Yijia Chun marks. As the restoration of the Yuanming Yuan had been halted for economic reasons, the vessels would have been delivered to the Forbidden City.
Very minor wear, good condition

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