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A RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL SMALL PINK-GROUND FAMILLE
ROSE MOONFLASK
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF
THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
清乾隆 粉紅地粉彩開光玉堂富貴背壺 礬紅四字篆書款
The moonfask is fnely potted with a fattened circular shape, supported
on a spreading oval foot. The short, waisted neck terminates in an incurved
mouth, fanked by two loop handles. The exterior of the body is elaborately
enamelled with a large circular panel to each side, depicting large peonies
beside branches of magnolia and crab apple, all reserved on a pink scrafiato
ground decorated with stylised lotuses and colourful leafy scrolls, between
a trefoil band at the base and ruyi lappets around the mouth. The interior and
base are enamelled in turquoise, with gilt lines repeated around the base and
mouth rim.
壺扁圓形，橢圓足，短頸，蒜頭口，兩側圈耳，雙面圓形開光，內以古月軒畫風
精細描繪一片牧丹倚石盛開，上方伸出的枝椏綴以朵朵玉蘭、海棠，花姿各
異。開光外粉紅軋道地上繪折枝蓮紋，上下口沿各有一圈金彩裝飾，上沿飾以
如意頭紋，下沿飾花卉紋。
6¿ in. (15.5 cm.) high
£600,000–800,000 $850,000–1,100,000
€690,000–910,000

PROVENANCE:
Purchased by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) from the art dealer Henry Durlacher
of New Bond Street, London, between September 1864 and September 1866
Fonthill Heirloom label, no. 450
Previously sold by the order of Lord Margadale of Islay, D.L., Christie’s London,
9 November 2004, lot 47
Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1376
來源:
英國銀行家Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) 於1864年9月至1866年9月間購自倫敦
古董商Henry Durlacher
Fonthill Heirloom 標籤, 450號
香港佳士得2004年11月9日受蘇格蘭貴族Lord Margadale of Islay, D.L.所託拍
賣, 拍品47號
香港佳士得2007年5月29日拍賣, 拍品1376號

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