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A FINE AND RARE SIMULATED-BRONZE 清乾隆 仿銅灑金釉竹節爐 描金六字篆書印款

BAMBOO-FORM TRIPOD CENSER 來源
香港佳士得，2003年4月28日，拍品529號
QIANLONG GILT AND IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK
清雍乾時期景德鎮御窯廠研發出一系列仿各式材質的新釉色，本器上的
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 仿灑金銅釉即為其中一例。乾隆三十六年各作成做活計清檔裏記載：
「三月........十一日接得行在造辦處帶來信帖一件，內開九江關監督伊齡
The censer is well potted in the form of a small lian censer, the 阿恭進御詩洋彩各色轎瓶九對..........仿古銅雙管瓶成對.....」（馮先銘，
cylindrical body moulded with three concave bands and raised on 《中國古陶瓷文獻集釋》，頁260），裏面提到的「仿古銅雙管瓶」可
three U-shaped bamboo feet, the base with three small faux-spur 能就是罩與本器相似的釉汁。
marks, covered overall with a rich brown glaze highlighted with
gold flecks in imitation of gilt-splashed bronze. 倫敦蘇富比1992年6月9日曾拍賣一件與本器基本相同的爐，拍品268號。
3 Ω in. (9 cm.) high, Japanese basket weave silver cover, Japanese 亦可參考一件仿灑金銅釉盌，藏瑞士鮑氏基金會，見J. Ayers著《Chinese
wood box Ceramics in the Baur Collection》，第二冊，日內瓦，1999年，圖版254
號[A655]。
HK$1,200,000-2,000,000 US$160,000-260,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 April 2003, lot 529

In the 18th century, porcelain was frequently used to simulate works
of art made from other media, including entirely gilt-bronze or gilt-
splashed varieties. An almost identical censer, also bearing a Qianlong
mark, was sold at Sotheby’s London, 9 June 1992, lot 268. Compare
also other types of simulated gilt-splashed bronze, such as the bulb
bowl with a Qianlong mark, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in
the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 254 [A655].

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