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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
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A FINE RARE FAMILLE ROSE ‘EIGHT BUDDHIST 清乾隆 白地粉彩番蓮托八寶雙耳鼎式爐 六字篆書橫款
EMBLEMS’ TRIPOD CENSER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN 來源
A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 倫敦富藝斯，1974 年 10 月 23 日，拍品 101 號
The censer is potted with a compressed globular body decorated in 郭克禮珍藏
underglaze-blue and enamelled with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, 此類器型原為五供中的其中一供。同樣以白地為類似例的乾隆
Bajixiang, alternating with lotus blooms on scrolling leafy tendrils 六字橫款香爐，可參照台北故宮博物院所藏一件八寶紋白地粉
extending onto the cabriole legs beneath a band of ruyi-heads. The
shoulders are set with tall upright curved handles, a scrolling lotus 彩鼎式爐，載於《故宮歷代香具圖錄》，台北，1994 年，圖版
foliage collar around the recessed neck, below a galleried rim with 120 號。此外亦可比較一件於 2013 年 5 月 14 日，倫敦佳士得，
a multi-coloured key-fret border reserving the reign mark written 拍品 226 號的八寶紋白地粉彩鼎式爐，其原為 Gordon 博士及
in a horizontal line. The base is decorated with a flowerhead Rosemary Fryers 博士之收藏。
within a puce floral border.
9 √ in. (25.2 cm.) wide across the handles 另可參考兩件粉紅地類似例，原為倫敦佳士得 2018 年 5 月 15
日的拍品262號及香港佳士得，2014年11月26日，拍品3314號。
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000 而香港佳士得 2018 年 11月28日，拍品 2925 號的乾隆款松石
綠地胭脂紅彩雲龍紋雙耳鼎式爐當為孤品。
PROVENANCE
Sold at Phillips London, 23 October 1974, lot 101
A related Qianlong mark-and-period white-ground famille
rose censer with similar shape and decoration but with a
slightly different mouth rim is included in National Palace
Museum, Taipei, Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and
Perfumes throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994, p. 266, no.
120. Compare also with the slightly larger Qianlong mark
and period white-ground famille rose censer with a similar
decoration from the Collection of Dr. Gordon and Dr. Rosemary
Fryer sold at Christie’s London, 14 May 2013, lot 226.
Two similar censers but reserved on a pink ground were
sold at Christie’s: one in London on 15 May 2018, lot 262,
from the collection of the Gardener family, Hertfordshire and
another in Hong Kong on 26 November 2014, lot 3314. A
unique comparable censer with rouge-enamel for the dragon
decoration and glazed in turquoise-ground was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong on 28 November 2018, lot 2925.

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