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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ROBERT CHANG ART EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
拍賣收益將撥捐張宗憲教育及藝術慈善基金會

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AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE 明宣德 青花夔龍紋罐 雙圈六字楷書款
BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR 來源

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A 倫敦佳士得，1988 年 12 月 12 日，拍品 173 號（封面）（圖二）
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435) 張宗憲先生珍藏
The jar is finely potted with a slightly compressed globular body
rising to a vertical neck and lipped rim, supported on a low and 展覽
broad foot, finely painted in rich saturated cobalt of inky-blue tone 倫敦佳士得，《張宗憲先生陶瓷器收藏精品特展》，1993 年
with areas of 'heaping and piling' to depict a striding three-clawed 6 月 2 至 14 日，圖錄圖版 12 號
kui dragon with a long snout, curled horns pointed back toward
its sinuous, muscular upper body and forelegs, its bifurcated foliate 罐直口，圓肩，鼓腹，平底。通體青花紋飾，頸飾如意雲頭紋，肩飾朵
scroll tail extends from behind its wings, its jaws open wide with a 花勾雲紋，腹繪夔龍銜蓮花紋，夔龍呈象鼻、雙翼、卷草式尾巴，矯健
floral sprig extending from its tongue. The foot is decorated with 雄渾，近底處畫蓮瓣紋一周。底青花雙圈內書「大明宣德年製」楷書款。
a band of petal panels, and a cloud collar with ten flower sprays on 青花發色濃艷亮麗，胎體堅致淨白，佈局舒朗秀逸，為明初青花器中之
the shoulder below a ruyi band at the neck framing stylised trefoils. 佼佼者。
The reign mark is well written on the base.
7º in. (18.3 cm.) high, box

HK$30,000,000-50,000,000 US$3,900,000-6,500,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s London, 12 December 1988, lot 173,and
illustrated on the catalogue front cover (fig. 2)
The Robert Chang Collection
EXHIBITED
Christie’s London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from
the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 12

(mark) fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing fig. 2
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品 圖二

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