DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

The present vase can be compared with a few similar vases from this period in the Palace Museum, Beijing, including an example illustrated in Falangcai, Fencai, The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 189, with a design of trees and flowers and bearing a Shende tang mark; also no. 191, a yellow-ground example, with a Daoguang seal mark; and no. 193, a ruby-ground vase decorated with flowering trees and bearing Daoguang mark. A vase in the Shanghai Museum, very similar in form and decoration, is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, Japan, 1981, no. 147. Another similarly decorated vase with birds and flowers and lotus scroll on a green-ground on the neck was sold at Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 296.