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PROPERTY FROM A HONG KONG PRIVATE 清乾隆
FAMILY COLLECTION 御製白玉瓜棱式羊首掐絲琺瑯提樑茶壺

A RARE AND IMPORTANT 來源：
IMPERIAL WHITE JADE AND 米莉森．羅傑斯（1902-1953年）收藏
CLOISONNE ENAMEL RAM-HEAD 香港佳士得1996年4月28日，編號2
TEAPOT AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG
PERIOD

exquisitely and skilfully worked from a lustrous 出版：
and even white stone with a rounded twelve-lobed 《香港佳士得二十周年回顧中國瓷器及工藝品
body resting on a splayed foot of corresponding 精選》，香港，2006年，頁368-369
form, the spout rendered on one side in the form
of a ram’s head, the beast sensitively depicted
with alert eyes and a pair of long curved striated
horns above the ears, the mouth-rim of the vessel
bordered with three evenly spaced paired lugs
to secure the gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel
handle, each side of the handle with a band
meticulously detailed with foliate scrolls and
accentuated with a cloisonné enamel fish and
ruyi terminal, all surmounted by a central floret
at the top, the cover of the vessel with sides of
similarly lobed form and encircling a central finial
with a short waisted stem and stepped globular
lobed knop
overall h. 18.5 cm,7¼ in.

PROVENANCE

Collection of Millicent Rogers (1902-1953).
Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th April 1996, lot 2.

LITERATURE

Christie’s Twenty Years in Hong Kong. Chinese
Ceramics and Works of Art Highlights, Hong Kong,
2006, pp. 368-369.

HK$ 20,000,000-30,000,000
US$ 2,560,000-3,840,000

80 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比