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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION COLLECTION
A MINIATURE MOLDED GOURD ‘DRAGON’ VASE A MOLDED GOURD ‘FLORAL’ GARLIC-MOUTH
MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG VASE
the base molded with a four-character mark within a square SHANGWAN MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
cartouche the base molded with a four-character Qianlong shang wan
Height 2⅜ in., 6 cm mark
Height 7⅛ in., 18 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Paris, 7th December 2007, lot 120. PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 17th March 2009, lot 68.
◉ $ 20,000-30,000 The appreciation of gourd molding, which had flourished
under the Kangxi Emperor, experienced a revival during the
清道光 匏製龍紋小瓶 reign of the Qianlong Emperor. The mark Qianlong shangwan
(‘appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor’) was reserved for
《道光年製》款 an exclusive group of gourd vessels commissioned by the
Emperor for his personal enjoyment and collection.
來源 For two other Qianlong shangwan-marked molded double-
巴黎佳士得2007年12月7日，編號120 gourd-shaped gourd vases sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
see one from the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection,

sold 3rd October 2017, lot 3010, and another from the
343 Speelman Collection, sold 2nd April 2018, lot 3411. See also
an octagonal brushpot from the Walter Sedgwick Collection,
sold twice in our London rooms, 2nd July 1968, lot 47, and
24th February 1970, lot 106, and a third time in our Hong
Kong rooms, 8th October 2009, lot 1806, from the Water
Pine and Stone Retreat Collection.
$ 30,000-50,000
344 清乾隆 匏製花卉紋蒜頭瓶

A ‘YIXING’ ‘CHILONG’ TEAPOT AND COVER 《乾隆賞玩》款
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
(2) 來源
Width 7⅛ in., 18 cm 紐約蘇富比2009年3月17日，編號68
A closely related Kangxi period Yixing teapot, decorated with
chilong, is illustrated in Gerard Hawthorn, Oriental Works of
Art, London, 2004, cat. no. 3.

⊖ $ 4,000-6,000
清康熙 宜興紫砂螭龍紋茶壺

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