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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED ‘FU CHARACTER’ TEAPOT AND Ceramic wares modelled in the form of characters like the present
COVER TOGETHER WITH A PAIR OF CUPS teapot were a remarkable innovation of the Kangxi reign. See a famille
Kangxi verte ‘fu character’ teapot, illustrated by H. Trubner in American
The teapot intricately moulded in the form of a fu character; each Exhibitions of Chinese Art, London, 1952, p.109, pl.327.
of the cups moulded as an archaic wine vessel, jue, raised on three
high splayed legs issuing from a beast head, the body decorated 壺形塑為鏤空草書「福」字，壺蓋為示字邊一點，示下半部則為壺
with four short flanges; all overall glazed in turquoise. 流。爵杯左右兩側出短棱，三足頂部作獸首。皆施孔雀綠釉。
Teapot: 20.2cm (8in) high; each cup: 8.4cm (3 1/4in) wide. (3).
以文字為造型的器名主要出現於康熙朝，而福壽為最常見二字。可比
HKD80,000 - 120,000 較美國洛杉磯郡立博物館曾展出一件康熙五彩福字壺，見H.Trubner
US$10,000 - 15,000 編，《American Exhibitions of Chinese Art》, 倫敦，1952，頁109
，編號327。
清康熙 孔雀綠釉福字執壺及爵杯一對

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