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2852 The vase is finely potted with a compressed globular body standing on a
short splayed foot rising to a long straight neck, applied with an even glaze
A RARE GUAN-TYPE GLAZED of sky-blue tone, the foot dressed brown.
PEAR-SHAPED VASE 8 æ in. (22.2 cm.) high, box

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL PROVENANCE
MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND
OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The J.M. Hu Collection

清乾隆 仿官釉長頸瓶 六字篆書款 EXHIBITED

HK$2,000,000-3,000,000 Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, Art Museum, The Chinese
US$260,000-390,000 University of Hong Kong, Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande
Lou Collection, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, 2005, Catalogue,
pl. 33

LITERATURE

Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics
from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. IV, Hong Kong,
1950, pl. 171

The Emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong were keen antiquarians who collected
and studied material from earlier dynasties. Deliberate copies of Song crackled
glazes were therefore developed at the Qing imperial kilns in response to the
emperors’ admiration for these early wares. It was recorded that the Yongzheng
Emperor had specifically required good copies of Song glazes to be produced
at Jingdezhen, at which the famous kiln director Tang Ying excelled. Tang Ying,
in his Taocheng jishi bei ji (Commemorative Stele on Ceramic Production), listed
out 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 to a larger crackled Ru-type glazed vase (26.8 cm) of similar shape
from the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln
Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 332. Compare also to
a smaller Ru-type crackled glazed vase (17.2 cm) of similar form but with a gently
flared mouth from the Stephen Junkunc, III Collection, sold at Christie’s New
York, 19 March 2008, lot 658.

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 33 號

著錄
Helen D. Ling 及仇焱之，《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》，
第四冊，香港，1950 年，圖版 171 號

雍正乾隆兩帝均慕古尚雅，故兩朝御窯廠仿宋代官窯器的製作可謂空前
興盛。據《清檔》記載，早於雍正四年，內廷就對景德鎮御窯廠發出燒
造仿官窯器的指令：「四月二十三日據圓明園來帖內稱員外郎海望奉旨，
著照官窯缸的尺寸畫樣呈覽過交江西燒磁處燒造。」雍正十三年（1735
年）唐英所作《陶成紀事碑》記：「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……」可見景德鎮督陶官唐
英將仿官釉稱之為「仿鐵骨大觀釉」，並係按照清宮所發宋代器物而製。

南京博物院藏一件造形相同但略大的仿汝釉例子 (26.8 公分 )，見 2003
年上海出版《中國清代官窯瓷器》，頁 332。亦可參考一件尺寸較小、
器形相若但撇口的仿汝釉例子，為 Stephen Junkunc 三世舊藏，2008 年
3 月 19 日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品 658 號。

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