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A WHITE-GLAZED CARVED 清乾隆 仿定白釉拱花仿古夔龍紋鳩耳尊
ARCHAISTIC VASE, HU 六字篆書刻款

QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE 來源
PERIOD (1736-1795) 紐約佳士得，1994 年 6 月 2 日，拍品 336 號
The bulbous body is moulded and carved with intertwined archaistic
dragons and the neck is decorated with six ruyi-heads below a moulded 展覽
wave band, flanked by a pair of handles shaped as stylised bird-heads 借展明尼阿波利斯美術館，1999-2020 年
with applied rings. The vase is covered overall in an even creamy-white
glaze. 出版
7 3/4 in. (19.8 cm.) high Robert Jacobsen，葉佩蘭及 Julian Thompson：《清代康雍乾宮
窯瓷器：望星樓藏瓷》，香港，2004 年，180 至 181 頁，圖版 66 號
HK$3,500,000-4,500,000 本壺形制及紋飾源自周代青銅壺，應參考清宮舊藏的周代壺形，其中
US$450,000-580,000 例子於《西清古鑑》有所著錄。紐約大都會博物館藏一件非常相似
的乾隆白釉壺，著錄於 S. Valenstein，《A Handbook of Chinese
Ceramics》，紐約，1989 年，圖版 268 號。亦見其他單色釉例子，
PR O V EN A N C E 如張宗憲舊藏一件書乾隆款冬青釉例子，紋飾與器形與本瓶一致，
Sold at Christie’s New York, 2 June 1994, lot 336 2008 年 5 月27 日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品1590 號。

E XH IB I TE D 同形制及紋飾的單色釉瓷早於雍正年間已燒製，例如北京故宮博物
On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999-2020 院藏一件雍正粉青釉螭龍紋尊，著錄於1989年香港出版《故宮珍藏
康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，圖版105號。香港佳士得亦曾拍賣一件雍正粉青
L I T E R A TUR E 釉例子，2016年6月1日，拍品3204號。
Robert Jacobsen, Ye Peilan and Julian Thompson: Imperial Perfection.
The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng - 各類單色釉瓷以外，在御製玉器及琺瑯器上亦能看見同器形及紋飾
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 180, no. 66 的仿古尊，如香港佳士得於 2013 年 5 月 29 日曾拍賣一件乾隆鏨胎
填琺瑯壺，上飾同樣仿古紋，拍品 2068 號。
The form of the present vase is inspired by archaic bronze vessels from the
late Western Zhou period. Vases of this form with different decoration and
glaze were appreciated during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. A
Qianlong-period Ru-type vase of larger size (48.7 cm.), but of similar shape,
is in the Nanjing Museum, and illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of
the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 329. A Yongzheng-marked
example with a teadust glaze in the collection of Lord Cunliffe is illustrated
by S. Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CIV 2, and also
included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Ceramic Art of
China, London, 1951, pl. 164, no. 242, where the heads on the handles are
called elephant heads. Another vase of this form with a Qianlong mark,
decorated in underglaze blue with flower scroll on the body and neck
between decorative borders, in the Huaihaitang Collection, is illustrated
in the exhibition catalogue, Ethereal Elegance, Art Museum, Institute of
Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11 November 2007
- 30 March 2008, pp. 296-97, no. 101.

The present vase can be compared to a white-glazed soft-paste porcelain
vase of similar form from the Qianlong period in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of
Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 268. (mark)

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