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Various Owners 各方藏家 37
A blue and white ‘lotus’ bottle vase
36 Qianlong seal mark and of the period
A pair of blue and white ‘fish’ dishes The bulbous body painted in underglaze blue with stiff lappets above
Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period classic scroll at the foot, beneath a continuous leafy floral meander
Each delicately painted on the interior central medallion with one fish issuing six larger blossoms alternating with six smaller blossoms beneath
swimming through swirling foaming waves looking up at another fish double ribs and a band of ruyi-head separated by a rib from a further
leaping above the waves, beneath a sun partially concealed by band of floral scroll at the shoulder, the flaring neck with long stiff
scrolling clouds. lappets pointing upwards to the ruyi-head band and foaming waves at
16cm (6¼in) diam. (2). the mouth.
£5,000 - 8,000 35cm (13 3/4in) high
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000 £20,000 - 25,000
HK$240,000 - 290,000 CNY190,000 - 240,000
Provenance: an Italian private collection
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋賞瓶 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
清雍正 青花海水雙魚紋盤一對 青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款
A very similar bottle vase in the Nanjing Museum is illustrated in
來源: 意大利私人收藏 Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing
Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.233. Compare also a similar vase from the
Inder Rieden Collection sold in these rooms, 10 November 2011, lot 44.

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