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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL’ VASE 清乾隆 青花纏枝花卉紋鋪首耳尊
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 《大清乾隆年製》款
of archaistic form, the ovoid body resting on a high splayed 來源：
foot and rising to a waisted neck, the shoulder applied with
a pair of molded elephant-mask handles each suspending Rolf Heiniger 收藏
a mock ring, the shoulder and body encircled by a register 馬錢特，倫敦，2001年3月22日
of lotus scroll and one of composite floral scroll each 展覽：
bound above and below by a pair of raised fillets, the lower
body wrapped in a band of crashing waves above a band 《The Rolf Heiniger Collection of Qing Imperial Wares》，
of lappets at the foot, the neck surrounded by stiff upright 馬錢特，倫敦，2000年，編號8
leaves beneath a narrow band of waves at the rim, all finely
painted in brilliant tones of underglaze blue with simulated
‘heaping and piling’, the base with a six-character seal mark
in underglaze blue, wood stand (2)
Height 10 in., 25.4 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Rolf Heiniger.
Marchant, London, 22nd March 2001.
EXHIBITED
The Rolf Heiniger Collection of Qing Imperial Wares, S.
Marchant & Son, London, 2000, cat. no. 8.
This vase belongs to a distinct group of blue and white wares
from the Qianlong period that combine motifs adapted from
early 15th century porcelain with a form inspired by archaic
bronze ritual vessels. Vases of this form were first produced
at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng
reign (r. 1723-1735), but their popularity peaked in the
Qianlong period (r. 1735-1796).
Qianlong mark and period vases of this shape and
design are held in important museums and private
collections worldwide. The National Palace Museum,
Taipei, has three vases of this type: one (coll. no. 中-
瓷-001385-N000000000) is illustrated in Porcelain of
the National Palace Museum. Blue and White Ware of the
Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. 2, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 2, and the other
two are published on the Museum’s website (coll. nos 中-
瓷-001555-N000000000 and 中-瓷-001388-N000000000).
A fourth is in the Palace Museum, Beijing (coll. no. 新
0095937). Another is in the collection of the Nanjing
Museum, and published in Xu Huping, Gong ting zhen cang:
Zhongguo Qingdai guanyao ciqi / Treasures in the Royalty:
The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
Shanghai, 2003, p. 235.
In recent years, vases of this type have sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 30th May 2017, lot 3201, and 29th November
2016, lot 3329; one sold in our London rooms, 10th
November 2010, lot 99; and another in our Hong Kong
rooms, 8th April 2009, lot 1679.
$ 100,000-150,000

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