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A TURQUOISE-GROUND FAMILLE-ROSE 清乾隆 松石綠地粉彩花卉鴛鴦圖長頸膽瓶
BOTTLE VASE 《大清乾隆年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

the pear-shaped body rising from a straight foot to a tall
cylindrical neck, brightly enamelled with pairs of mandarin
ducks and magpies amongst flowering peonies, prunus,
orchids and lingzhi, all reserved against a turquoise-imitation
ground, the base enamelled turquoise save for a white
square inscribed with a six character seal mark
42.5 cm, 16¾ in.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 52,000-80,000

With its bold decoration of pairs of mandarin ducks and 膽瓶妙仿松綠石，上繪鴛鴦、喜鵲成雙，盡展乾隆年間
magpies amongst flowering blooms against a bright ground 瓷藝之華貴絢麗。其他乾隆署款例包括 Hebblethwaite
painted in imitation of turquoise, the present vase displays 舊藏玉堂富貴膽瓶，略較此高，兩度售於倫敦蘇富
the broad variety of styles and innovations in ceramic design
that marked the Qianlong period. In simulating the tradition- 比，1974年12月2/3日，編號539及1981年7月14日，
ally esteemed semi-precious stone and choosing an idiosyn- 編號121。參考二件燈籠瓶，分別飾以花鳥及折枝花
cratic design, the craftsmen purposefully created a work of 卉，前者售於倫敦蘇富比2013年11月6日，編號186，
art that would cater to the aesthetic taste of the Qianlong 後者兩度在香港蘇富比易手，1979年11月28日，編號
Emperor.
259及2011年4月8日，編號3088。John Morrison 典藏
Compare further Qianlong mark and period vases simi- 一例，收錄在詹甯斯，《Later Chinese Porcelain》，
larly enamelled with a simulated turquoise-matrix ground, 倫敦，1951年，圖版CVIII，圖2。香港蘇富比另拍出兩
such as a slightly larger pear-shaped example from the
Hebblethwaite collection, depicting a pair of pheasants, 例，均綴以開光山水，分別為1978年11月29日，編號
sold twice in our London rooms, 2nd/3rd December 1974, 323，以及1976年11月29日，編號616。
lot 539, and 14th July 1981, lot 121; a lantern vase, depicting
birds on flowering branches, sold in our London rooms, 6th
November 2013, lot 186; another lantern vase decorated
with floral sprays, sold twice in these rooms, 28th November
1979, lot 259, and 8th April 2011, lot 3088; and one of ovoid
form, from the John Morrison collection, published in Soame
Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. CVIII,
fig. 2. An ovoid vase decorated with two landscape panels
against a turquoise ground scattered with flower sprays,
was sold in these rooms, 29th November 1978, lot 323; and
another of slightly waisted baluster form, painted with two
landscape panels below two similar vignettes, was also sold
in these rooms, 29th November 1976, lot 616.

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