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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN CHUANG COLLECTION 明永樂 青花折枝靈芝紋石榴尊
AN OUTSTANDING AND RARE BLUE AND
WHITE ‘POMEGRANATE’ VASE 來源：
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD 香港蘇富比2000年10月30日，編號101
出版：
modelling after a metal prototype, superbly potted with a
baluster body divided into six lobes, rising from a tall splayed 《香港蘇富比三十週年》，香港，2003年，圖版240
foot to a waisted cylindrical neck, elegantly sweeping up to 朱湯生，《中國瓷器—莊紹綏收藏》，香港，2009
an out-turned rim with rolled lip simulating a pomegranate 年，圖版8
fruit, the exterior painted in rich cobalt-blue tones in the
‘heaped and piled’ effect, depicting on each lobe a lingzhi
spray with radiating trefoil leaves between lappet bands, the
neck similarly decorated with three joined circles, all divided
by vertical line borders at the ribs, the everted rim and the
foot encircled by broad pendent lappets, covered overall in a
thick transparent glaze save for the unglazed footring
18.7 cm, 7⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 101.
LITERATURE
Sotheby’s: Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl.
240.
Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese
Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 8.

HK$ 18,000,000-25,000,000
US$ 2,300,000-3,190,000

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