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A VERY RARE MOULDED TURQUOISE AND 清乾隆 仿銅釉開光粉彩墨彩四季山水圖瓶
描金六字篆書款
BROWN-GLAZED FAMILLE ROSE GRISAILLE
來源
VASE 俄亥俄私人收藏，入藏於1960至1970年
紐約佳士得，2010年9月16日，拍品1489號
QIANLONG GILT SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
此精緻小瓶巧妙結合了乾隆時代的仿古及創新元素，以金彩
(1736-1795) 夔龍紋配合綠鏽斑營造仿古青銅器器面，再以當時新研煉的
粉彩及墨彩繪畫出細膩的開光山水圖，將以古融今的精神發
The vase is moulded with confronted chilong decorated in gilt and 揮得淋漓盡致。北京故宮博物院藏一件乾隆款花觚，上飾與
reserved on a faux-turquoise ground, separated by a wide band at the 本器非常相似的金彩夔龍紋及綠鏽斑地，院方將此裝飾手法
shoulder painted in gilding with a series of dots, the mid-section with 定名「仿古銅彩」，需經二次低溫燒成，見1999年香港出版
four panels painted in famille rose enamels and grisaille with figures in 故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《琺瑯彩．粉彩》，圖版50號。
landscapes, possibly representing the four seasons.
3 À/”ÿ in. (8.1 cm.) high, wood cover, wood stand

HK$2,500,000-3,200,000 US$330,000-410,000

PROVENANCE

A private collection, Ohio, United States, acquired in the 1960-
1970s
Sold at Christie’s New York, 16 September 2010, lot 1489

This delicately potted vase exhibits the thoughtful combination of the
spirits of archaism and innovation seen on many Imperial porcelain
pieces from the Qianlong period. On one hand, archaistic dragons
rendered in gilt against a mottled turquoise ground were employed
to simulate an archaic bronze surface. On the other hand landscape
cartouches were decorated in a range of newly developed enamels,
which were skilfully mixed to create a ‘painterly’ effect in imitation of a
literati painting. Such juxtaposition of archaistic and contemporaneous
elements was particularly pervasive amongst works of art from the
Qianlong reign, reflecting the Emperor’s interest in antiquities as well
as novelties. The rendition of the dragons against a mottled ground on
the present vase, is very similar to that seen on a porcelain gu vase in
the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Porcelains with Cloisonne
Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999,
pl. 150. In this catalogue, the Museum terms such combination of gilt
decoration and mottled turquoise ground ‘simulated archaic bronze
enamel’, which requires a second firing.

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