Bidspirit auction | Chinese Dayazhai Porcelain Imperial Marks

Chinese Dayazhai Porcelain Imperial Marks Bowl 20c - This bowl is decorated en grisaille with wisteria and tree peonies on a yellow ground, inscribed with three characters ??? (Daya Zhai ‘Studio of Great Elegance’) and ????? (tian di yi jia chun ‘Spring throughout heaven and earth - one family’) within a seal in iron red. The four-character mark on the base reads ???? (Yongqing changchun ‘eternal prosperity and enduring spring’) in iron-red enamel. The Empress Dowager, Cixi, was the mother of the Tongzhi Emperor and the power behind the throne from 1861 until her death in 1908. This porcelain pattern is believed to have been designed by her and made in Jingdezhen. The Daya Zhai is the hall with in the Forbidden City where Cixi lived. Porcelain with transparent glaze and overglaze and en grisaille enamels with iron-red Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province ???, ??? Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, about AD 1875–1908