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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF AN ENGLISH LADY 清雍正 掐絲琺瑯仿青花釉裏紅雲龍紋天球瓶
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND LARGE 天球瓶碩大宏偉，長頸微束，寬肩鼓腹，圓唇、足底鎏
CLOISONNE ENAMEL ‘DRAGON’ 金。通體掐絲細緻，盤飾巨龍騰雲，氣勢磅礡。紅龍鹿
TIANQIUPING 角，長鬚曲捲，口滿利齒，身軀矯健，密披細鱗，足皆三
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD 爪，鋒利如刀，穿雲逐追火珠。水波滄浪之上，卷雲朵
朵，或藍或白，以色調深淺，交代層次遠近，彷彿牡丹盛
of impressive size, the globular body supported on a short 綻如潮。
circular foot, surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck with
rolled lip, powerfully decorated with bright enamels of various 來源：
hue within strong gilt-bronze outlines, depicting a ferocious Spink & Son，倫敦
three-clawed dragon with mouth wide opened revealing sharp
fangs and a curled tongue, its long curly whiskers issuing from 展覽：
either side of its flared snout, crowned by a pair of white horns Grosvenor House，倫敦，1988年7月
protruding from its mane formed from a mass of radiating red
fur, sweeping back to its powerful coiling body covered in pink
and red scales, its forearm extended to reach for a flaming
pearl, the muscular limbs aggressively striding on tumultuous
waves of various shades of blue and white foams swirling into
crested currents just above the base, the rim and the circular
base gilt
57.3 cm, 22½ in.
PROVENANCE
Spink & Son, London.
EXHIBITED
Grosvenor House, London, July 1988.
HK$ 6,000,000-8,000,000
US$ 770,000-1,030,000
30 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比
