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The distinctive shape of the mouth rim, which rises from an elongated 本瓶器形端正雅致，口沿處圓鼓如蒜頭，因而稱蒜頭瓶。蒜頭瓶器形
neck, resembles the shape of a garlic bulb, and has been a popular 源自周漢青銅器，如蘇芳淑著錄一件戰國晚期青銅瓶，同樣口呈蒜
design element during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The shape, probably 頭形，見《Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M.
modelled after archaic bronzes from the Eastern Zhou period, can be Sackler Collections》，卷3，紐約，1995年，編號52。本瓶設計則
found on ritual bronze hu vases dated to the late Warring States period,
4th-3rd century BC, see Jenny So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the 取材於明代永宣青花器，據清宮《活計檔》記載，乾隆三年六月二十
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, no. 52. The underglaze 五日，「七品首領薩木哈、催總白世秀來說太監高玉交……宣窯青花
blue decoration of the present vase is following designs from the Yongle 白地蒜頭瓶一件……傳旨，交與燒造磁器處唐英……燒造完時再將
and Xuande periods, showing individual fruiting branches dynamically 交出原磁器繳回，仍交磁器庫。此磁器內有大器皿應畫樣帶去，其小
placed on the porcelain surface. According to palace archival records, 磁器皿俱各帶。欽此。」
on Qianlong third year (1738), a ‘Xuande blue and white garlic-head vase’
was presented to Tang Ying, who was ordered to make copies and to 青花折枝花果紋蒜頭瓶於雍正朝已有燒製，至乾隆時期仍然備受
return the Xuande vase to the palace after firing. 喜愛。可比較數件同類例子，一件藏國立故宮博物院（圖一），
著錄於《故宮藏瓷》，卷二，香港，1968年，圖版5a-c；一件藏北京
Suantouping with this design was also produced during the Yongzheng
period and continued to be popular throughout the Qing dynasty. 首都博物館，著錄於《中國古陶瓷全集》，上海，1999-2000年，
Compare to a Yongzheng vase, sold at Sotheby’s New York, 29 November 卷15，圖版8；一件藏南京博物院，著錄於《中國清代官窯瓷器》，上
1978, lot 234. A Jiaqing period vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is 海，2003年，頁211；一件藏上海博物館，著錄於《上海博物館藏品
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. 研究大系：清代雍正-宣統官窯瓷器》，上海，2014年，圖版4-18。
Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pl.
145; another sold at Christie’s New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1375. 另可參考天民樓舊藏一件，2019年4月3日於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品
14號。
Other examples from the Qianlong period includes one vase in the
collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei (fig. 1), illustrated in
Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Blue and White Ware of the Ch’
ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, vol. 2, pls. 5a-c; one vase in the Capital
Museum, Beijing, published in Zhongguo gu taoci quanji [Complete
series on Chinese ceramics], Shanghai, 1999-2000, vol. 15, pl. 8; in
the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingdai guanyao ciqi,
Shanghai, 2003, p. 211; and in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Zhou
Lili, Qingdai Yongzheng-Xuantong guanyao ciqi Shanghai, 2014, pl. 4-18.

Also compare to a vase from the collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 81, and again, 3 April
2019, lot 14, from the Tianminlou collection. Another vase was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Marchant – Fifty Qing Imperial Porcelains, 10 July
2020, lot 3112.

fig. 1 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
圖一 國立故宮博物院藏品

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