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fig. 1
Blue and white ‘floral scroll’ vase, seal mark and period of
Yongzheng
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th November 1977, lot 201
圖一
清雍正 青花纏枝花卉紋撇口大尊 《大清雍正年製》款
香港蘇富比1977年11月29日，編號201

This vase is among the largest porcelain vases See also two examples decorated with dragons
produced by the imperial kiln of the Yongzheng amidst a composite floral meander, one from
reign, and appears to be unique, although a the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in
similar example of slightly different scroll pattern The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
was sold in these rooms, 29th November 1977, Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with
lot 201 (fig. 1). One similar vase decorated with Underglazed Red (III), op. cit., no. 89 (fig. 2), and
flower scrolls supporting the Eight Buddhist another from the Yi Tak Tang collection, included
Emblems in the Palace Museum, Beijing, in The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min
is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Chiu Society Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong
Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Kong, 2010-2011, cat. no. 169.
Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Shanghai,
2000, no. 88; and another with fruit spray, is
illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing
Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968,
vol. I, p. 68, pl. 2-2d.