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Posted By: Bill H Posted Date: Mar 02, 2014 (03:46 AM) |
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Message I believe this is a late 20th century or subsequent Chinese plate, although the mark of "Beautiful Vessel for the Jade Hall" (玉堂佳器 - Yu Tang Jia Qi) is listed in "The New and Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics" by Gerald Davison as associated with the Ming Wanli and Tianqi reign periods, and also appeared on early Qing Transitional and Kangxi period porcelains. "Jade Hall" is a euphemism for the Hanlin Academy, the imperial training grounds for scholars and bureaucrats for a thousand years before the end of the Qing Dynasty. My doubts about the age of this plate are fueled by what appears to be an artificially darkened foot rim with an apparently perfectly glazed center. The underglaze blue mark also appears to be too uniformly dark in color to have been hand-written. Otherwise the motif and mark are similar to what is seen on a plate with decoration of Immortals celebrating the birthday of Shoulao, dating from the reign of the first Qing emperor Shunzhi (1644-1661). See link below (Due to recent troubles accessing this site via the forum link, please manually copy this URL into your browser). http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-blue-and-white-immortals-dish-shunzhi-5199160-details.aspx? Best regards, Bill H. Post a Response |
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