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PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG PRIVATE COLLECTOR
香港私人珍藏
3064
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL 清康熙 鬥彩羣仙圖八方花盆一對 六字楷書橫款
‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
來源:
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF 香港佳士得，1995年10月30日，拍品743號
THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each thickly potted jardinière of octagonal section is finely painted 康熙時期，御窯廠曾燒製一批大型花盆，其多以鬥彩為飾，偶見五彩，主題
to the sides with various scenes of Daoist immortals, their associated 皆為道教人物故事，並於折沿下方書康熙六字款。近似例可比較2000年9
animals and auspicious attributes, and attendants, all in an outdoor 月21日紐約佳士得拍賣一對鬥彩花盆，拍品358號，其器形與此相同，但人
setting, above a lotus-scroll border and a diaper pattern around the 物有異（圖一）；台北故宮博物院所藏有一件六方近似例，如意足，收錄於劉
splayed foot. The everted rim is further decorated with flowering 良佑《中國歷代陶瓷鑑賞》第50頁；及北京故宮博物院藏一件帶底座花盆，
branches. 故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《五彩‧鬥彩》，香港，1999年，第210頁，編號
23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide, gilt-metal stands (2) 192(圖二)。
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000

P R O V E NAN C E :
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 743
The present pair of jardinières belongs to a group of jardinières usually
of rather large size, decorated in a painterly style, most often in doucai
technique, but occasionally in famille verte enamels, and marked beneath
their everted, flattened, foliated rims with six-character Kangxi marks.
A pair of jardinières of identical octagonal form and with identical
border but decorated with different scenes of Daoist figures in lavish
landscapes was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2000, lot 358
(fig. 1). Compare also a hexagonal planter with ruyi-shaped feet similarly
decorated with scenes of Daoist figures in lavish landscapes and with
a Kangxi mark is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by
Liu Liang-yu in Ch’ing Official and Popular Wares p. 50 and another on a
pedestal foot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete (marks)
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome
and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 210, no. 192 (fig. 2).

fig. 1 Sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2000, lot 358 fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 紐約佳士得，2000年9月21日，拍品358號 圖二 北京故宮博物院藏品

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