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A FINE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BAJIXIANG’ VASE, HU

SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

清乾隆 青花纏枝番蓮托八吉祥紋舖首壺

《大清乾隆年製》款

the robust ovoid body supported on a splayed foot, sweeping 來源：
up to a waisted neck and everted rim, set with two taotie- 香港蘇富比1977年11月29日，編號206
mask handles suspending mock rings, brightly painted in deep 展覽：
shades of cobalt accented by contrived ‘heaping and piling’ 《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1987年，編號58
with a wide band of scrolling lotus, the large blooms borne in an
《天民樓青花瓷特展》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1992 年，編號83
alternating double register with the upper row each supporting 《天民樓青花瓷特展》，上海博物館，上海，1996年
one of the beribboned bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems), 《千祥雲集：中國吉祥圖案文物－敏求精舍四十五週年紀念展》，香港
each of the lotus blooms further superbly decorated in the 藝術館，香港，2005年，編號212
central pod with a shou character, the neck encircled by a band
of quatrefoil crenulated motifs divided by flower sprigs and 出版：
劉良佑，《中國歷代陶瓷鑑賞》，卷5：清官窰及民窰，台北，1991
further wrapped with a lotus scroll, the base skirted with petal
panels, all between a band of tumultuous waves encircling the 年，頁156
rim and foot, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark 《天民樓珍藏青花瓷器》，上海，1996年，編號89
49.5 cm, 19½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th November 1977, lot 206.
EXHIBITED
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 58.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 83.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and
white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
Auspicious Emblems: Chinese Cultural Treasures – 45th
Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 212.
LITERATURE
Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5: Ch’ing
Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p. 156.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 89.

HK$ 8,000,000-12,000,000
US$ 1,020,000-1,530,000

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