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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
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A RARE IMPERIAL CLOISONNE ENAMEL 清乾隆 御製掐絲琺瑯蝶戀花萬菊錦紋太平有象尊
‘ELEPHANT HANDLE’ VASE 來源
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，
The body is decorated with a diaper ground comprising 入藏於1910年以前
honeycombs enclosing florettes and wan emblems underneath
a row of pink petals, between two raised bands of ruyi-heads 北京故宮博物院藏一件較大的例子（61公分高），器形及紋飾均與本拍
enclosing lotus sprays. The neck is colourfully decorated with 品非常相似，同樣飾鎏金象耳及凸出雲肩，但琺瑯發色較灰澀，見2011
upright plantain leaves between butterflies and floral roundels, 年北京出版《故宮博物院藏品大系 — 琺瑯器編》，卷3，圖版111（圖
flanked by a pair of gilt-metal elephant-head handles cast in high 一）。
relief. The gilt base is cast with a raised flowerhead.
14…Õ/”ÿ in. (38 cm.) high
HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-190,000

PROVENANCE
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield,
Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910
A larger vase (61 cm. high) of very similar form and design, also with
gilt elephant handles and raised collars on the shoulder and foot, but
with less well-preserved enamels, is in the Palace Museum Collection,
illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum –
Enamels, vol. 3, no. 111 (fig. 1).

Mr. George Walter Vincent Smith in his living room together with fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
the current vase, circa 1894 圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品
史喬沃先生約 1894 年與本拍品合照於客廳中

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