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notes the elongated and slightly rigid style in which the reign mark on these dishes is written and its similarity to Yongzheng period
reign marks; thus suggesting that it represents a stylistic transition between the two reigns.

Two closely related dishes from the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, are illustrated in ibid., pls 4 and 5; a dish from the Grandidier
Collection, in the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, col. pl.
86; another was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 16th May 1989, lot 290, and 30th October 2000, lot 154; and a fifth example
was sold in our Paris rooms, 13th June, 2012, lot 174, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4th October 2016, lot 164.

本品鬥彩顏色鮮豔，紋飾寓意吉祥，明顯乃壽辰賀禮。康熙皇帝在位長達六十載，壽宴並不鋪張，唯1713年六十大壽以及1723年準備七十
大壽例外。前者舉國歡慶，盛宴連連，後者計劃亦同樣盛大，惜皇帝七十壽辰之前突然駕崩。為賀康熙帝六十及七十大壽，景德鎮大量制
瓷，早於數年之前便開始燒制。林業強近年開始嘗試辨認康熙六十及七十大壽特製瓷器，並認為如本品之盤乃為康熙七十壽辰而製（林業
強，〈Myriad Longevity Without Boundaries. Some Qing Imperial Birthday Ceramics from Hong Kong Collections〉，《Arts of
Asia》，2010年10月，卷40，編號5，頁 110-111）。林氏指出此類盤年款修長而風格偏向生硬，與後來雍正年款相近，故此推測前者乃
康雍兩朝之間過渡風格。

比較兩例，出自香港徐氏博物館，出處同上，圖版4及5；另一例出自Grandidier收藏，現存於巴黎吉美博物館，圖載於《Oriental
Ceramics. The World's Great Collections》，卷7，東京，1981年，彩圖版86。另一例售於香港蘇富比1989年5月16日，編號290，以及
2000年10月30日，編號154；例五售於巴黎蘇富比2012年6月13日，編號174，後易手於香港佳士得2016年10月4日，編號164。

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