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fig. 7 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei fig. 8 Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2126

圖七 國立故宮博物院藏品 圖八 香港佳士得，2013年5月29日，拍品2126號

The present hat stand further distinguishes itself from other porcelain enamelled discs highlighted with black-enamelled veins closely simulate
examples by showcasing the exceptional ability of ceramic decorators at the colour and texture of turquoise matrix. The present hat stand appears
the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen in imitating a range of different materials to be the only porcelain hat stand with this decoration. At least four
using glaze and enamel colours on porcelain. A new array of glaze and other Qianlong porcelain hat stands imitating carved cinnabar lacquer
enamel colours were developed in the Imperial workshops during the are known, two decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, one in
Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, thus the craftsmen had a vastly enlarged the National Palace Museum, Taipei (zhong-ci-003543-N000000000,
palette with which to create new designs and effects on porcelain. The fig. 7), one in the Shenyang Museum, illustrated in The Prime Cultural
18th century fascination with imitating other materials through the use Relics Collected By Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, the China ware
of glazes and enamels on porcelain was brought to a new height during volume, the second part, Shenywang, pp. 188-189, no. 3, two decorated
the Qianlong period, as can be seen in a set of nine thumb rings in the with dragons, one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 3110,
collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, each of which imitates another sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16 May 2012, lot 179.
a different material, including wood, bamboo, marble, pudding stone,
inlaid bronze, malachite and turquoise, see Emperor Ch'ien-lung's Grand The current type of decorative technique and palette is most similarly
Cultural Enterprise, National Palace Museum, Taipei, p. 199, no. V-36. found on a censer sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2126
(fig. 8), which is similarly covered with gilt-decoration on a café-au-lait
The gilt-decoration against a café-au-lait glazed ground on the present ground, but with celadon-glazed reticulated panels on the sides possibly
hat stand successfully imitates gold-inlaid bronzes, while the turquoise- imitating the colour of Longquan wares.

除了器形以外，本冠架最特別之處，乃以瓷胎模仿他類材質之裝飾手法。 陽，2008年，頁188-189，圖版3號。另外二件飾以龍紋，一件2019年5月29
瓷匠以紫金釉爲地，模仿銅質，上以描金爲飾仿效錯金，再以松石綠釉 日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品3110號，另一於2012年5月16日於倫敦蘇富比
表現綠松石之色澤及紋理。整體效果幾可亂真，體現了乾隆官窯致力於 拍賣，拍品179號。
新、奇、巧作品燒造之成就。乾隆時期，以瓷胎仿製數量最多的材質應
爲雕漆。比較四件乾隆瓷胎仿雕漆冠架，二件飾以八吉祥紋，一藏於台 以瓷胎仿銅錯金的例子還可參考2013年5月29日香港佳士得拍賣一件
北故宮博物院，藏品編號：中-瓷-003543-N000000000（圖七），另一件藏 四足熏爐，該例四面開光青釉鏤雕夔龍紋，見拍品2126號（圖八）。
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THE IMPERIAL PALETTE THREE QIANLONG TREASURES