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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE ABUNDANCES’
GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Elegantly potted with a pear-shaped body above a splayed foot, rising
to a slender neck and a bulbous garlic-shaped mouth, painted in rich
cobalt blue tones with ‘heaped and piled’ effect depicting fruiting and
flowering sprays of the Three Abundances, sanduo, below bands of
downward ruyi-heads, key-fret scrolls and stylised lotus lappets on the
neck and a band of crested waves on the foot, all below a continuous
frieze of meandering floral scrolls at the mouth rim, the base with a six-
character zhuanshu seal mark, box.
28.2cm (11 1/8in) high (2).
HK$2,200,000 - 2,500,000
US$280,000 - 320,000
清乾隆 青花花果紋蒜頭瓶 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
Provenance 來源:
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 463
A European private collection
香港蘇富比，1987年5月20日，拍品463
歐洲私人舊藏

Image courtesy of the Shanghai Museum
上海博物館藏

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