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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE EWER
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

清乾隆 青花開光花果紋執壺
《大清乾隆年製》款

superbly potted, the generous pear-shaped body rising from a 來源：
splayed foot to a waited neck flaring at the rim, set on one side 香港蘇富比1986年5月20日，編號43
with a curved spout joined to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut, 展覽：
opposite the arched strap handle adorned by grooves and
《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1987年，編號59
surmounted by a small loop on top and accented with three 《天民樓青花瓷特展》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1992 年，編號84
knobs of clay at the base, imitating metalwork studs, finely 《天民樓青花瓷特展》，上海博物館，上海，1996年
painted in deep cobalt-blue tones with simulated ‘heaping and
piling’, with a quatrefoil panel on either side, one enclosing 出版：
a branch of peaches with two fruit among blossoms and 蘇玫瑰，〈Archaism and Invention: Sources of Ceramic Design in the Ming
foliage, the other with a branch of loquat with many stylised and Qing Dynasties〉，George Kuwayama 編，《New Perspectives on the Art
fruit, the panels flanked by flowers of the ‘Four Seasons’ of Ceramics in China》，洛杉磯，1992年，頁87，圖版21
with pomegranate, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, all 《天民樓珍藏青花瓷器》，上海，1996年，編號90
between the neck collared by lotus scroll and upright plantain
leaves, and the foot skirted with a band of upright lappet petals,
the spout decorated with a foliate scroll, with ruyi-clouds on the
strut and sprays of lingzhi on the handle, inscribed on the base
with a six-character seal mark
26.7 cm, 10½in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20th May 1986, lot 43.
EXHIBITED
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 59.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 84.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and
white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
LITERATURE
Rosemary E. Scott, ‘Archaism and Invention: Sources of
Ceramic Design in the Ming and Qing Dynasties’, George
Kuwayama ed., New Perspectives on the Art of Ceramics in
China, Los Angeles, 1992, p. 87, pl. 21.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 90.

HK$ 3,000,000-5,000,000
US$ 383,000-640,000

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