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A RARE TURQUOISE-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE 'DOUBLE HAPPINESS' TEAPOT AND COVER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG | 清道光 粉彩松綠地番蓮雙喜茶壺 《大清道光年製》款
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October 9, 08:09 AM GMT
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1,200,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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Property of a Gentleman
A RARE TURQUOISE-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE 'DOUBLE HAPPINESS' TEAPOT AND COVER
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
清道光 粉彩松綠地番蓮雙喜茶壺
《大清道光年製》款
gilt-decorated and enamelled with shuangxi characters and lotus flowers wreathed by dense foliage issuing attendant leafy peaches against a bright turquoise ground, between friezes collaring the neck, shoulder and foot, the cover similarly painted and surmounted with a lotus finial, the interiors and base left white, the latter with an iron-red seal mark
l. 20.5 cm, 8 in.; h. 17 cm, 6 ⅝ in.
Christie's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 572.
Collection of T.T. Tsui (1940-2010), by repute.
香港佳士得1999年11月2日，編號572
傳徐展堂（1940-2010年）收藏
The 'double happiness' character, or shuangxi in Chinese, is a wish for a happy marriage, and therefore, an ideal motif for ceramics made for weddings. This type of teapots appears to be fairly rare with only a few known comparable examples. See a globular covered teapot of similar turquoise-ground 'double happiness' decoration, also inscribed with an iron-red Daoguang mark and of the period, sold at Christie's Paris, 7th June 2011, lot 92; and another Daoguang teapot of this form, with an iron-red seal mark, but decorated with floral panels, sold in our Paris rooms, 16th December 2010, lot 222. Compare also a Jiaqing lime-green ground famille-rose teapot of this form, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st December 2010, lot 3206.
Similar famille-rose 'double happiness' decoration can also be found on Daoguang porcelain of other shapes. A turquoise-ground charger was sold in these rooms, 24th/25th November 2014, lot 1220. Two jars were sold in our London rooms: a lime-green ground one with a cover, 13th December 1983, lot 288; and a pink-ground example without a cover, 11th June 1991, lot 222.