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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清雍正 仿官釉弦紋貫耳壺
A GUAN-TYPE ARROW-HANDLED VASE, HU 《大清雍正年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
來源：
of archaistic hu form, superbly potted with a flattened pear-
shaped body rising from a splayed recessed foot to a tall neck 香港蘇富比1983年11月14日，編號135
set with a pair of tubular handles, encircled with moulded 香港蘇富比1997年4月29日，編號577
horizontal bands, covered overall in a brilliant unctuous pale
greyish-green glaze, the base inscribed with a six-character
seal mark in underglaze blue
27 cm, 10⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 14th November 1983, lot 135.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1997, lot 577.
HK$ 700,000-900,000
US$ 90,500-116,000

The form of the present vase is derived originally from Shang 弦紋貫耳壺，器形源自商周青銅器，釉色淺青泛藍，
and Zhou dynasty bronze prototypes, however, the unctuous 傚擬南宋官窰瓷，古趣盎然，深得清宮慕古之意。
pale bluish-grey glaze suffused with fine crackles is evocative 比較一件雍正窰仿哥釉貫耳壺，尺寸、器形相類，
of Song dynasty Guan wares that also imitated ancient ritual
vessels, and were much admired by the antiquity-loving Qing 釉面滿佈開片紋，錄於《清康雍乾名瓷特展》，台
court. 北，1986年，編號63。參考一例仿汝釉貫耳壺，亦屬雍
A vase of very similar size and form but covered with a Ge-type 正窰，2005年10月23日售於香港蘇富比，編號319；另
crackled glaze, Yongzheng mark and period, was included in 一器售於香港佳士得，2004年4月26日，編號946。克利
the Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-cheng 夫蘭藝術博物館舊藏一件器形、釉色相似作例，尺寸
and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch’ing Dynasty in the 較大，售於紐約佳士得2000年9月21日，編號369；還有
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 63. Compare also 一例售於香港蘇富比，2011年4月8日，編號3014。
a Ru-type vase of slightly similar form, also with a Yongzheng
mark and of the period, sold in these rooms, 23rd October
2005, lot 319; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th 比較清宮舊藏一件龍泉青釉貫耳壺，器形亦取材高古
April 2004, lot 946. For larger Yongzheng vases of this form 青銅壺雛本，尺寸較大（31.5公分），刊於《故宮博物
and glaze, see one from the Cleveland Museum of Art, sold 院藏文物珍品全集・兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，1996
at Christie’s New York, 21st September 2000, lot 369; and 年，圖版102。
another sold in these rooms, 8th April 2011, lot 3014.

For the prototype of this vase, originally inspired by an archaic
bronze hu, compare the Longquan vase of slightly larger size
(31.5 cm) and very similar form, in the Qing court collection,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Hong Kong,
1996, vol. 2, pl. 102.

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