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This vase, decorated with bold designs of luxuriant lotus scrolls, is 瓶盤口，長頸，溜肩，長圓腹，撇足。通體及足內施青釉，頸、腹凸花
very rare. Only one closely related example appears to have been 纏枝蓮紋。底印「大清乾隆年製」篆書款。
published, which is a smaller celadon-glazed vase of similar shape,
similarly moulded and carved with scrolling lotus and the base with an 此器甚為罕見，唯一近似例子為香港懷海堂收藏，其器形與此器相仿，
underglaze-blue Qianlong seal mark, from the Huaihaitang Collection
illustrated in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, 亦飾凸花蓮紋，惟尺寸較小，底書青花六字篆書款，見《機暇清賞：懷
Hong Kong, 2007, no. 51. 海堂藏清代御窰瓷缾》，香港，2007 年，編號 51。
Compare the style of decoration to the unusual celadon-glazed 凸花紋飾使得此器上的釉色產生了濃淡深淺的層次變化，類似的裝飾
moulded vase in the Baur Collection, which has a similarly impressed 手法可參考瑞士包爾收藏的一件豆青釉凸花壽字紋瓶，見《Chinese
Qianlong seal mark, illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Ceramics in the Baur Collection》，第二冊，日內瓦，1999 年，圖版
Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 295. The same effect of the
contrasting shades of rich green and nearly white along the edges of 295 號；以及北京故宮博物院藏一件豆青釉凸花蕉葉紋蓋罐，見故宮博
the moulded elements, can be seen on a covered jar with archaistic 物院藏文物珍品全集《單色釉》，香港，1999 年，圖版 141 號。兩器底
designs in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete 部皆印六字篆書款。
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome Porcelain,
Hong Kong, 1999, no. 141, where a comparable Qianlong mark is also
illustrated.

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