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A VERY RARE AUBERGINE-GLAZED 清乾隆 茄皮紫釉花插 六字篆書刻款
FLOWER HOLDER

QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE 來源
PERIOD (1736-1795) 約 1995 年入藏
The finely potted vessel is moulded with a compressed body and a
slightly doomed top with three circular apertures. The glaze is of a dark 展覽
purple colour slightly thinning at the rim and the foot. 借展明尼阿波利斯美術館，1998-2020 年
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high
出版
HK$800,000-1,500,000 Robert Jacobsen，葉佩蘭及朱湯生：《清代康雍乾宮窯瓷器：望星
樓藏瓷》，香港，2004 年，240 至 241 頁，圖版 95 號
US$110,000-190,000

PR O V EN A N C E
Acquired circa 1995
E XH IB I TE D
On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1998 - 2020

L I T E R A TUR E
Robert Jacobsen, Ye Peilan and Julian Thompson: Imperial Perfection.
The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng -
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 240, no. 95
Although flower holders from the Qianlong period are well known, also
compare lot 2715 in this catalogue, it appears this is the only flower
holder with aubergine glaze recorded. The purple tone of this glaze can
be compared to a related aubergine-glazed bottle vase, impressed with
a Qianlong seal mark from the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers,
Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, A475,
no. 323. Compare also to two Qianlong-marked aubergine-glazed
archaistic tripod vessels, jue, one from the Baur collection illustrated in ibid.,
no. 322; and the other from the Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 507.

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