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2851 Each facetted vase is applied to the shoulder with a pair of lug-shaped handles,
A FINE PAIR OF GUAN-TYPE
GLAZED OCTAGONAL VASES
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL
MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND
OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
清乾隆 仿官釉八方貫耳瓶一對
六字篆書款
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 University of Hong Kong, Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou
US$130,000-190,000
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covered overall with a thick, even glaze of greyish-blue tone, the foot dressed
brown.
5 ¬ in. (14.3 cm.) high, box
PROVENANCE
The J.M. Hu Collection
EXHIBITED
Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, Art Museum, The Chinese
Collection, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, 2005, Catalogue, pl. 32
LITERATURE
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics
from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. III, Hong Kong, 1950,
pl. 167
Vases of this type from the Qianlong period were applied with both guan-type and
Ru-type glazes. The National Palace Museum Collection has two such examples,
each inscribed on the base with an Imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor, with
lines indicating that these vases functioned as receptacles for flowers (see Obtaining
Refined Enjoyment: The Qianlong Emperor’s Taste in Ceramics, Taipei, 2012, pl.
85, 86.) The current vases are covered with a thick, greyish-blue glaze and dressed
brown on the feet, in imitation of Song guan wares. In the thirteenth year of the
Yongzheng reign (1735), the Superintendent of the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen,
Tang Ying, listed in Taocheng jishi bei ji (Commemorative Stele on Ceramic
Production), a number of glazes in imitation of Song wares, including ‘moon-white,
pale green and deep green, all copied from ancient pieces sent from the Imperial
Palace’.
Compare also to a smaller example of this type (13.9 cm.) in the National Palace
Museum collection, illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Qing
Monochromes, Taipei, 1981, p. 149, no. 89.
來源
胡惠春珍藏
展覽
上海博物館、首都博物館、香港中文大學文物館，《暫得樓清
代官窯單色釉瓷器》，上海、北京、香港，2005 年，圖錄圖版
32 號
著錄
Helen D. Ling 及仇焱之，《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》，第三冊，
香港，1950 年，圖版 167 號
器形小巧，以仿官釉燒製。國立故宮博物院藏兩件造型及尺寸相若之仿汝
釉與仿官釉製品，分別於器底暗刻乾隆皇帝御題詩，其中「簪花勝酒斟」、
「擷芳攜取供吟興」兩句，表明是為花器之用（參見《得佳趣——乾隆皇
帝的陶瓷品味》，台北，2012，頁 188、189，圖 85、86）。
本拍品八方形器身，瓶身兩側各飾一貫耳，於《清檔》中稱之為「八方雙
管瓶」，製作靜雅，把手可玩。通體滿施仿官釉，釉質醇厚，圈足飾以鐵
褐色，以仿宋代官窯「鐵足」之色。與據雍正十三年（1735 年）唐英所作
《陶成紀事碑》中稱，仿官釉器係按照清宮所發宋代器物而製的記載相合。
「廠內所造各種釉水、款項甚多，不能備載。茲舉其仿古、采今，宜於大
小盤、杯、盅、碟、瓶、罍、罇、彝，歲例貢御者五十七種，開列與後，
以志大概。仿鐵骨大觀釉，有月白、粉青、大綠等三種，俱仿內發宋器色
澤。」
另可參見國立故宮博物院藏一件尺寸較小的同類例子 (13.9 公分 )，見《清
代單色釉瓷器》，台北，1981 年，頁 149，圖 89。