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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. CHAN CHI CHIN 清乾隆 天青釉長頸瓶
A FINE CLAIR-DE-LUNE-GLAZED BOTTLE 《大清乾隆年製》款
VASE,
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源：
倫敦蘇富比1975年7月8日，編號188
25.8 cm
英國鐵路基金會收藏
PROVENANCE 香港蘇富比1989年5月16日，編號48
Sotheby’s London, 8th July 1975, lot 188. 展覽：
Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16th May 1989, lot 48. 多切斯特國際陶瓷展，倫敦，借展，1986年6月
EXHIBITED
Dorchester International Ceramics Fair, London, on loan,
June 1986.

HK$ 480,000-600,000
US$ 61,500-77,000

The present vase is notable for its elegant form which 此長頸瓶器型優雅，是乾隆時期單色釉瓷的代表作，
is enhanced by the lustrous clair-de-lune glaze that is in 反映乾隆皇帝崇古之風。雍乾二帝尤好宋瓷，不僅搜
imitation of the celebrated Ru ware of the Northern Song 珍藏雅，還命景德鎮官窰仿製，參看一例乾隆仿汝
dynasty (960-1127). The Qianlong Emperor is renowned for
his fondness for Imperial stonewares of the Song dynasty. 釉長頸瓶，為美國收藏家J.P.摩根收藏，曾於大都會
He not only collected them but also commissioned new 博物館展覽，見《The Morgan Collection of Chinese
porcelain with similar glaze from the Imperial kilns for his Porcelains》，紐約，1907年，編號24，後售於香港
appreciation, one such example is from the collection of 蘇富比1996年4月30日，編號397。於本瓶尺寸及釉
J. Pierpont Morgan, included in the exhibition The Morgan 色相似的例子，見香港蘇富比2004年4月25日，編號
Collection of Chinese Porcelains, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, 1907, no. 24, was sold in these rooms, 258。另見英國杜倫大學東方藝術及考古博物館藏一
30th April 1996, lot 397. For a vase of similar form and glaze 例，著錄於《Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the
colour, see an example sold in these rooms, 25th Aril 2004, Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics》，紐
lot 258; and another in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental 約，1972年，圖版CV，編號282。
Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated in
Laszlo Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the
Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New
York, 1972, pl. CV, no. 282.

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