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138

A FINE AND LARGE SACRIFICIAL BLUE-GLAZED
BOTTLE VASE

SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

清乾隆 霽藍釉長頸膽瓶
《大清乾隆年製》款

sturdily potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a slightly 來源：
splayed foot, elegantly sweeping up to a tall cylindrical 香港蘇富比1978年11月28日，編號138
neck, covered overall in a rich sacrificial blue glaze gradually 香港蘇富比1988年5月17日，編號94
thinning at the rim and stopping neatly just above the footring,
the interior and base glazed white, inscribed to the base with a
six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
46.5 cm, 18½ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th November 1978, lot 138.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 94.

HK$ 2,000,000-3,000,000
US$ 255,000-383,000

A slightly shorter vase was sold twice in these rooms, 8th 一支略矮的作例曾二度於香港蘇富比售出，分別為1982年
November 1982, lot 270, and 8th October 2013, lot 3058. 11月8日，編號270及2013年10月8日，編號3058。亦有
A vase of this type, also bearing a Qianlong seal mark 同形釉色及署乾隆銘款例，前屬 Walker Art Gallery，現
and of the period, from the Walker Art Gallery, now in the 為 Merseyside 縣立博物館所藏，刊載於 Nigel Wood，
Merseyside County Museums, is illustrated in Nigel Wood, 《Precious Vessels》，利物浦，1980年，圖版139。
Precious Vessels, Liverpool, 1980, pl. 139; and another from 另一例也可見於 Gordon of Khartoum 收藏，刊於 W.G.
the collection of ‘Chinese Gordon’ (Gordon of Khartoum), is
illustrated in W.G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, London, Gulland，《Chinese Porcelain》，卷2，倫敦，1911年，
1911, pl. 734. 圖版734。

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