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THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN COLLECTOR
亞洲私人珍藏
2903

TWO BLUE AND WHITE ARCHAISTIC WINE 清乾隆 青花海水江崖雲鶴紋爵及托一組四件
VESSELS AND STANDS, JUE 四字篆書款
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 來源
(1736-1795) Kenneth Robert Malcolm 舊藏，英國
Each jue is decorated to the exterior in vibrant shades of cobalt 倫敦蘇富比，1999 年 6 月 16 日，拍品 874 號（左邊拍品）
blue depicting cranes in flight admist scrolling clouds. The body
is supported on three feet decorated with floral scrolls. Both
stands are similarly decorated with further cranes in flight amongst 出版
clouds. 《中国名陶展：中国陶磁 2000 年の精華》，東京，1992 年，
The larger, 5¡ in.(13.5 cm.) high overall (4) 圖版 141 號（右邊拍品）
HK$500,000-700,000 US$65,000-90,000
PROVENANCE
The collection of Kenneth Robert Malcolm, C.B.E.
Sold at Sotheby's London, 16 June 1999, lot 874 (the left of the
present illustration)
LITERATURE
Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000- nen no seika (Exhibition of
Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo,
1992, no. 141 (the right of the present illustration)
Compare the present lot with a blue and white decorated jue and stand
in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose
Kerr in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911,
London, 1986, p. 67, no. 44. Another very similar jue and stand with the
same crane and cloud decoration were sold at Christie’s London,
6 November 2018, lot 244.

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