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Tall Porcelain Chinese Vase Dao Guang Emperor 1820-1850

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Sold Date: 04/17/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Huge PorcelainChinese Blue & White Qing Dynasty Vase

Huge Porcelain Chinese Vase Qing Dynasty with landscape.

Landscape shows steep mountains, peasants working on the field, village, fisherman in the boat, another boater, trees, etc.

On one side - 50 Chinese characters are hand painted, which is a poem depicted on the vase.

There is a fire discoloration brown spot on one side, which is actually a proof of authenticity. The size of the spot is 2.5 x 0.7 inch = 60 x 8 mm.

Height: 17 inch = 43 cm

Upper Opening Diameter: 5 inch = 13 cm

Lower Base Diameter: 5.5 inch = 14.2 cm

Middle Diameter: 7.75 inch = 19 cm

Weight: 8 lb = 4 kg

The Daoguang Emperor ( Chinese : 道光帝 ; pinyin : D� oguāngdì , 16 September 1782 – 25 February 1850) was the seventh emperor of the Manchu -led Qing dynasty and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China proper , from 1820 to 1850.

Early years

He was born in the Forbidden City , Beijing , and was given the name Mianning (綿寧), changed into Minning (旻寧) when he became emperor: the first character of his private name was changed from Mian (綿) to Min (旻) so as to avoid the relatively common Mian character. This novelty was introduced by his grandfather the Qianlong Emperor who thought it not proper to use a common character in the emperor's private name due to the long-standing practice of naming taboo .

He was the second son of Yongyan (永琰), who became the Jiaqing Emperor in 1796. His mother, the principal wife of Yongyan, was Lady Hitara of the (Manchu) Hitara clan, who became empress when Jiaqing ascended the throne in 1796. She is known posthumously as Empress Xiaoshu Rui (孝淑睿皇后).

Mianning was well liked by his grandfather the Qianlong Emperor and would frequently accompanied the elderly emperor on hunting trips. One such trip at the age of nine yielded a successful hunt of a deer which greatly amused Qianlong. In 1813, while a prince, Mianning also played a vital role in repelling and killing White Lotus invaders that stormed the Forbidden City which earned Mianning important merits in securing his claim for the throne.

Reign as emperor and the opium trade

In September 1820, at the age of 38, Mianning inherited the throne after his father the Jiaqing Emperor suddenly died of unknown causes. Now known as the Daoguang Emperor, he inherited a declining empire with Western imperialism encroaching upon the doorsteps of China. During his reign, China experienced major problems with opium , which was imported into China by British merchants. Opium had started to trickle into China during the reign of his great grandfather Emperor Yongzheng but was limited to approximately 200 boxes annually. By the time of Emperor Qianlong 's reign, this amount had increased to 1000 boxes, 4000 boxes by Jiaqing's era and more than 30,000 boxes during Daoguang's reign. He made many edicts against opium in the 1820s and 1830s, which were carried out by the famous Lin Zexu . Lin Zexu's effort to halt the spread of opium in China was quite successful, but, with the development of the First Opium War , Lin quickly fell out of favour and the Daoguang emperor suddenly removed Lin's authority and banished him to Xinjiang . Daoguang's decision was a blow to China's effort to halt the influx of opium and deepened the Europeans' resolution to enter the vast Chinese market which eventually led to the First Opium War against Britain. Technologically and militarily inferior to the European powers and hobbled by the incompetence of the Qing government, China lost this war and was forced to surrender Hong Kong at the Treaty of Nanking in August 1842. Henceforth, Daoguang became the first emperor of the Qing dynasty to have lost a portion of its sovereign territories.