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A FINE AND RARE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE
Incised Qianlong seal mark and of the period
With steep sides and slender neck converging towards a thickly lipped
mouth, flanked by a pair of thin elephant-head handles, all lustrously
decorated in a thick purplish-red glaze with striking streaks of creamy
bluish glaze, the base incised with a six-character zhuanshu seal mark.
22cm (8 5/8in) high
HK$600,000 - 700,000
US$77,000 - 90,000
清乾隆 窯變釉象耳尊 陰刻「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
The stylised elephant handles on the present lot can be interpreted 尊唇口，長頸，折肩，腹部內斂，圈足外撇，頸部有如意雙耳，其器
as xiang, forming the pun taiping youxiang, meaning ‘a sign of 形古拙且俊秀，釉面流淌自然，以紅、藍、月白三色交替變化，色彩
peacefulness’. 斑斕，其底部施醬黃色釉，並刻「大清乾隆年製」六字三行篆書款。
Similar flambé-glazed vases, Qianlong seal mark and period, can be 參看瀋陽故宮博物院藏一件類似的乾隆窯變瓶，著錄於《瀋陽故宮博
found in important museum collections: compare one illustrated in The 物院院藏精粹：瓷器卷二》，2007年，頁147；另見劉良佑著，《中
Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: 國歷代陶瓷鑑賞5：清官窯及民窯》，台北，1991年，頁207；另見
The Chinaware Volume, the Second Part, 2007, p.147; a similar vase 山中商會曾經展出一例，著錄於《Exhibition of Chinese and Other Far
in the Exhibition of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Co》，紐約，1943年，編號
Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1943, no.915; a third flambé-glazed vase 915；另見J.Ayers著錄瑞士鮑氏收藏一例，款識較為模糊，《Chinese
is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics: Ch’ing Ceramics in the Baur Collection》，卷二，日內瓦，1999年，圖259。
Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p.207; and another example,
with obscured mark, is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the 香港蘇富比曾售出一件類似的乾隆窯變象耳瓶，2014年10月8日，拍
Baur Collection, vol.2, Geneva, 1999, pl.259. 品3111；另見倫敦邦瀚斯售出一例，原為意大利私人舊藏，2012年
11月8日，拍品120。
A similar flambé-glazed vase, Qianlong mark and period, was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3111; and another similar
example was sold in our London rooms, 8 November 2012, lot 120.
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