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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE EWER AND COVER, HE The covered he form was produced during the Qing dynasty to imitate
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE the archaic bronze prototype of the Zhou dynasty. The usage of the
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) he vessel transformed throughout the ages. In archaic times, it was a
The ewer is of compressed spherical body in archaistic he form practical container used for diluting wine; during the Qing dynasty, the
form was valued for decoration. A slightly smaller Qianlong-marked
painted with a leiwen band and a scroll of the Bajixiang, Eight covered he of this pattern (21.1 cm.) is in the National Palace Museum,
Buddhist Emblems, supported on lotus flowers. It sits on four Taipei, illustrated in Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and
cylindrical legs painted with lingzhi scrolls. The C-shaped handle, Ch’ien-lung Wares, Taipei, 1986, no. 71. See several other examples, one
the gently flared neck and the spout are painted with the same from the Tianjin Art Museum, included in the exhibition Imperial China.
The Living Past, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992, no. 94;
pattern. A small underglaze-blue loop handle protrudes from the one in Chinese Porcelain, the S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part I,
centre of the cylindrical cover with surrounding lingzhi scrolls and Hong Kong, 1987, no. 64; and one from Norbulingka, Lhasa, exhibited
a band of leiwen at the mouth rim. at the Palace Museum, Beijing, Gems of China’s Cultural Relics, 1992,
9 in. (23 cm.) wide, box no. 46.
HK$1,500,000-2,000,000 US$200,000-260,000
清乾隆 青花蓮托八吉祥紋蓋盉 六字篆書款
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 227 來源
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1685 香港蘇富比，2003年4月27日，拍品227號
香港蘇富比，2006年4月10日，拍品1685號

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