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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
士紳珍藏
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A RARE AND FINE GUAN-TYPE PENTA- 清雍正 仿官釉五瓣瓜棱瓶 六字篆書款
LOBED BOTTLE VASE 來源

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 法國私人珍藏，建立於二十世紀初期
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
瓶開五棱，長頸直口，通體施仿官窯天青釉，足圈棕褐，沉博絕麗，清
The body of the vase is potted with five facets separated by
indented corners between the neck and the foot ring, covered all 雅出塵，為雍正時期仿宋官窯之珍品。雍正皇帝與皇父康熙和皇子乾隆
over in a glaze of even sky-blue tone suffused with wide crackles. 一樣，俱鍾情於蒐求古玩，並曾多次下令製作仿古用器，其中仿古陶瓷
9¬ in. (24.5 cm.) high 種類尤其繁多。御窯督陶官中的翹楚—— 唐英於1735 年撰成《陶成記
事碑記》，文中即列舉了約五十七類器物和近四十種釉料，包括一批從
HK$2,500,000-3,000,000 US$330,000-390,000 宋瓷汲取靈感的釉料，位列仿宋器首位的即是本瓶上所見的「仿鐵骨大
觀釉」，其重要性可見一斑。
PROVENANCE
A French private collection, formed in the early 20th century 器形相近的雍正五瓣瓜棱瓶雖經著錄，但皆施仿哥釉，仿官釉者除此瓶
之外似不見他例，此瓶可能為孤品。雍正仿哥釉五瓣瓜棱瓶可參考北京
The glaze on the present vase is based on that of Song-dynasty
Guan ware, one of the ‘five famous wares of the Song dynasty’. Song- 故宮博物院所藏一件（28公分），見《哥瓷雅集故宮博物院珍藏及出土
dynasty wares were highly admired by the Yongzheng emperor, a keen 哥窯瓷器薈萃》，北京，2017年，圖版132號；望星樓所藏一件（27.9
antiquarian who collected and studied material from earlier dynasties. cm.），見《清代康雍乾官窯瓷器》，香港，2003年，頁186－87，圖版
The Yongzheng emperor is recorded to have specifically ordered that 79號（圖一）；歐雲伉儷舊藏一件（21公分），2019年3月20日於紐約佳
porcelain wares imitating the various stoneware glazes of the Song
dynasty be produced at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen. In fact, the 士得拍賣，拍品826號；以及H.F.Parfitt及克拉克夫人舊藏一件，1975年3
famous kiln director Tang Yin became particularly well-known for the 月25日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品113號。
success of these imitation Song wares. Some of the finer imitation wares
bear imperial reign marks, as seen on the base of the present vase.
The combination of the five-lobed form and delicate size of this vase
appear to be extremely rare. All other similar examples are found in
Ge-type glaze, including one in the collection of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Selection of Ge Ware: The Palace Museum
Collection and Archaeological Discoveries, Beijing, 2017, pp. 270-71,
no. 132 (28 cm.); one in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in
Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors,
Kangxi – Yongzheng – Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, no. 79 (27.9 cm.)
(fig. 1); one from The Irving Collection, sold at Christie’s New York,
20 March 2019, lot 826 (21 cm.); and one from the collections of H. F.
Parfitt and Mrs Alfred Clark, sold at Sotheby’s London, 25 March 1975,
lot 113.

(base 底部) fig. 1 Wang Xing Lou Collection
圖一 望星樓藏品
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