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A RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE FLORAL VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The vase is elegantly potted in the form of a compressed hu, with two wide bands of fowers and foliage
decorating the exterior of the body, separated by concentric bands. The short spreading foot is painted
with a lotus border.
8 in. (20.2 cm.) high

£200,000-300,000 $290,000-420,000
€260,000-380,000

PROVENANCE:

From a private European collection.
Ofered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 224.

It is rare to fnd a blue and white vase from this period potted with this dramatically waisted hu form.
One blue and white vase of similar shape, dated to the Yongzheng period and also painted with
foral scrolls in the Ming style, was exhibited at the Exhibition of Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the
Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue no. 85; and
subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 84. See a later example of this shape
on a Qianlong mark and period famille rose revolving vase at the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated
in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 39 - Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel
Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, pp. 174-175, pl. 155.

清雍正 仿明式青花纏枝花卉紋瓶 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

來源:歐洲私人珍藏，於1990年11月13日香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品第224號

瓶撇口，短頸，鼓腹，圈足外撇。通體分三層青花紋飾，頸飾如意形花卉
紋，肩部及腹部飾纏枝花，近足處飾蓮瓣，足牆飾蓮花。底青花雙圈內書
「大清雍正年製」六字楷書款。
此瓶造型模仿漢代青銅壺，端莊古樸，釉面瑩潤。紋飾承襲明代風格，青花
色澤亮麗，構圖疏密有致。腹部如此飽滿的壺式瓶，實屬罕見。一件相似的
雍正款青花花卉紋瓶，源自趙從衍舊藏，曾於1978年在香港藝術館展出，
後由香港蘇富比於1986年11月18日拍賣，為拍品84號。另可參考清宮舊藏
之乾隆款粉彩鏤空開光花卉象耳轉心瓶，其器形與此拍品相近，現藏於北京
故宮博物院，載1999年香港出版《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集39琺瑯彩.粉
彩》，第155頁，圖155。

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