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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED GILT- 清乾隆戊辰年（1748 年） 青釉地描金御題詩瓜棱小罐
DECORATED CELADON-GLAZED MELON- 「 大邑冰瓷巧就模 擷芳隨處貯瓊敷
FORM JARLET 郵程水陸延羣玉 風月三千護蕊珠
QIANLONG CYCLICAL WUCHEN MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1748 不是文殊命童子 定為長吉背奚奴
AND OF THE PERIOD 一塵弗染諸緣靜 豈識尋常有菀枯
The small jar is finely potted with ribbed sides in the shape of a 乾隆戊辰春月御題」
melon and inscribed in gilt with an imperial poem, all below a
band of stylised ruyi-heads to the shoulder and a band of upright 印文：「乾」「隆」
lappets enclosing the foot rim. 來源
3¡ in. (8.6 cm.) high
倫敦佳士得，2012 年 11 月 6 日，拍品 275 號
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 275

The Imperial poem inscribed on the present jarlet is recorded in Siku
Quanshu (The Complete Library of the Four Treasures). For a blue-
ground wall-vase with kui-dragons with the same calligraphic poem;
and another pair of wall-vases with the same poem decorated with iron-
red kui-dragons, see Poem and Porcelain: The Yu Zhi Shi Ceramics in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, 2016, p. 170, no. 52 and p. 88, no. 61.

(another view 另一面)

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