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A GUAN-TYPE HU-FORM VASE 清乾隆 仿官釉鳩耳尊 六字篆書款
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE 直口短頸，溜肩鼓腹，圈足，兩側鳩耳銜環，通體施仿官釉，
BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
足圈棕褐，外罩開片，紋理疏朗，線條遒勁，古韻盎然。
Well potted with pear-shaped body tapering to a broad cylindrical neck, flanked by a pair
來源:
of animal-head handles suspending fixed rings, covered overall with a greyish-blue glaze
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮．阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥，於1990年前入藏。
suffused with a golden crackle, the foot rim covered with a brown dressing
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) high
如本拍品之鳩耳尊於清雍正（公元1723—1735年）、乾隆
$100,000-150,000
（1736—1795年）兩朝均有燒製。傳世諸例可參考：南京
博物院藏一乾隆仿汝釉之例，形制與本品相仿，惟尺寸略大
PROVENANCE:
（48.7公分），錄於《宮廷珍藏：中國清代官窰瓷器》，上
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1990.
海，2003年，頁329；Cunliffe勳爵雅藏一雍正茶葉末釉例，錄
於S. Jenyns著《Later Chinese Porcelain》，倫敦，1951年，圖
Hu-form vases with stylized mask handles suspending fixed rings were made in the
版CIV2，並曾於東方陶瓷學會展出，載於《The Ceramic Art
Yongzheng (1723-1735) and Qianlong periods (1736-1795). A Qianlong-period
of China》，倫敦，1951年，圖版164，編號242，惟圖錄載
Ru-type vase of larger size (48.7 cm.), but of similar shape, is in the Nanjing Museum,
瓶耳為象式；懷海堂藏一乾隆款青花纏枝蓮紋之例，香港中
and illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003,
文大學中國文化研究所文物館展出，2007年11月11日至2008
p. 329. A Yongzheng-marked example with a teadust glaze in the collection of Lord
年3月30日，詳見《機暇清賞：懷海堂藏清代御窰瓷缾》，頁
Cunliffe is illustrated by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CIV 2,
296—97，編號101；紐約大都會藝術博物館藏一乾隆款白釉
and also included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China,
London, 1951, pl. 164, no. 242, where the heads on the handles are called elephant 仿古紋之例，，參見S. Valenstein著《A Handbook of Chinese
heads. Another vase of this form with a Qianlong mark, decorated in underglaze Ceramics》，紐約，1988 年，頁 264，編號268。
blue with flower scroll on the body and neck between decorative borders, in the
Huaihaitang Collection, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Ethereal Elegance,
Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
11 November 2007 - 30 March 2008, pp. 296-97, no. 101. Another Qianlong-marked
soft-paste porcelain vase of this latter type, with archaistic relief decoration under a
white glaze, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated by S. Valenstein,
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1988, p. 264, no. 268.

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