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A FINE AND VERY RARE IRON-RED 清雍正 礬紅夔鳳紋水丞 雙圈六字楷書款
‘PHOENIX’ WATER POT
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 來源
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) 倫敦蘇富比，1998 年 6 月 16 日，拍品 260 號（一對之一）
The delicate water pot is finely decorated on the exterior in iron 倫敦蘇富比，2013 年 5 月 15 日，拍品 171 號
red with two highly stylised archaistic phoenix with trailing tail 器外以礬紅繪兩隻夔鳳，為雍正官窯瓷器罕見品種。其於 1998 年 6 月
feathers between stylised fretwork bands encircling the neck and 16 日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣時，原為一對，見拍品 260 號。另一件 2013 年
above the foot. 11 月 6 日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品 157 號。北京故宮博物院藏一件相同
2 º in. (5.7 cm.) high, box 例子，典藏編號故 00150292，載於博物館網站數字文物庫中（圖一）。
HK$1,200,000-2,500,000 US$160,000-320,000 同類品種可參考一件香港蘇富比於 1980 年 11 月 25 日拍賣原為趙從衍
舊藏的清雍正礬紅夔鳳紋水丞，見拍品 127 號，另有一對則見於香港蘇
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s London, 16 June 1998, lot 260 (one of a pair) 富比 1974 年 10 月 31 日， 拍品 291 號。
Sold at Sotheby’s London, 15 May 2013, lot 171
The pair to the present water pot, which was originally sold together at
Sotheby’s London, 16 June 1998, lot 260, was sold again at Sotheby’s
London, 6 November 2013, lot 157. A Yongzheng water pot with the
same decoration is in the Palace Museum Collection (museum no.
Gu00150292), is recorded on the museum website digital archive (fig. 1).
Another similar iron-red decorated water pot, also with a Yongzheng
mark and of the period, previously in the E. T. Chow Collection, was
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 127. Another pair
of the same pattern, with Yongzheng marks and of the period, was sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31 October 1974, lot 291.

fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品

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