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A rare gilt-bronze and cloisonné enamel
garlic-head vase
Qianlong

The rounded body attractively enamelled on each side with luxuriantly-

petalled pink, red and purple peony flowers issuing from leafy

branches, all on a turquoise ‘cracked-ice’ ground, the body narrowing

to a slender neck ringed by a gilt band and terminating in a bulbous

mouth enamelled with six ruyi-head around the lip, the neck flanked by

two ruyi-shaped handles each enamelled on the head with a blue bat.

30cm (12in) high

HK$500,000 - 800,000
US$64,000 - 100,000

清乾隆 掐絲琺瑯牡丹紋如意耳蒜頭瓶

Cloisonné enamel vases with such a bulbous lower body and garlic- 本拍品瓶腹渾圓，瓶身兩側飾如意耳，細頸修長，配上蒜頭形瓶口，
head mouth are extremely rare. See, however, a related example, 18th 這種造型在傳世品中十分少見。巴黎裝飾藝術博物館藏男爵夫人所羅
century, but of ovoid form and enamelled with floral sprays, previously 門‧羅斯柴爾德舊藏一件十八世紀的相關例子，飾有花卉紋，可參考
from the collection of Baroness Salomon de Rothschild and now in the B.Quette，《Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, illustrated by B.Quette, Cloisonné: Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011年，頁164，圖8.18。另見一件十八
Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, 世紀上半葉的掐絲琺瑯牡丹紋扁瓶，瓶身比本器較為扁平，瓶側有龍
2011, p.164, fig.8.18. See also another moonflask, enamelled with 紋耳，著錄於H.Brinker and A.Lutz，《Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre
peony blossoms, first half 18th century, but of more flattened form Uldry Collection》，紐約，1989年，圖版234。
and with dragon shaped handles, illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz,
Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, 參考一件飾牡丹紋的蒜頭瓶，造型比本器小（25厘米高），拍賣於巴
pl.234. 黎佳士得，2011年12月14日，拍品編號247。也見另一例子，拍賣於
紐約蘇富比，2012年9月11日，拍品編號344。在眾多例子中，僅本
A related garlic-head vase, also enamelled with peony but slightly 拍品飾有冰紋為地和工藝細膩的如意耳，十分難能可貴。
smaller (25cm high) was sold at Christie’s Paris, 14 December 2011,
lot 247. Compare also another example which was sold at Sotheby’s
New York, 11 September 2012, lot 344. The present lot can be further
distinguished from these pieces by the delicate ‘cracked-ice’ ground
and broader more elaborate ruyi-shaped handles.

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