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A FINE AND RARE WHITE- The vase is potted with a rectangular foot and body below an angular flaring neck
GLAZED RECTANGULAR rising to a mouth of conforming shape. The neck is decorated with a raised band.
HANDLED VASE The stepped shoulder is applied with a pair of scroll-shaped handles. The vessel is
covered overall with an even clear glaze with the exception of the foot.
YONGZHENG PERIOD 4 ¡ in. (11 cm.) wide, box
(1723-1735)
清雍正 白釉雙耳長方瓶 PROVENANCE
HK$320,000-480,000
US$42,000-62,000 The J.M. Hu Collection

44 EXHIBITED

Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou
Collection, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, 2005, Catalogue, pl. 24

LITERATURE

Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from
the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. III, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 129

The form of this vase, which almost resembles a compressed gu-shaped vessel and
probably based on a metalwork shape, is extremely rare. No other identical example
appears to have been published to date.

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 24 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 129 號

方瓶側面直視，實為素面花觚之變形，雙肩起彎狀豎耳，極為罕見。直線形
的口沿及圈足，與器身四邊弧線相配，呈現剛柔相濟的和諧美感。器內外並
底，滿施透明白釉，釉色瑩潤，工藝考究。