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A VERY FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLOWER AND FRUIT’

GARLIC-MOUTH BOTTLE VASE
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

清乾隆 青花折枝花果紋蒜頭瓶
《大清乾隆年製》款

with a pear-shaped body supported on a spreading foot and 來源：
tapering to a tall slender neck with a garlic-head mouth and 趙從衍（1912-1999年）收藏
thin lip, the body painted in bright cobalt-blue tones with 香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號81
stipples to imitate the ‘heaped and piled’ effect, decorated
展覽：
with alternating flowering and fruiting branches of the sanduo 《趙從衍家族基金會藏明清瓷器》，香港藝術館，香港，1978年，編
arranged in two registers, all between lappet borders, the 號91
neck adorned with a band of pendent lappets, each enclosing 《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1987年，編號61
a double-trefoil motif above a key-fret band and pendent ruyi
《天民樓青花瓷特展》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1992 年，編號86
heads, the bulbous mouth with a floral scroll below a further 《天民樓青花瓷特展》，上海博物館，上海，1996年
key-fret frieze at the rim, the foot skirted with a band of waves,
the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark, wood stand 出版：
27.7 cm, 10⅞ in. 劉良佑，《中國歷代陶瓷鑑賞》，卷5：清官窰及民窰，台北，1991
年，頁159
PROVENANCE 《天民樓珍藏青花瓷器》，上海，1996年，編號92
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999).
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 81.
EXHIBITED
Exhibition of Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of
the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art,
Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 91.
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 61.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 86.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and
white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
LITERATURE
Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5: Ch’ing
Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p. 159.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 92.

HK$ 5,000,000-7,000,000
US$ 640,000-895,000

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