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This vase belongs to a distinct group of blue and white wares 此類青花壺，器形慕古，紋飾仿明十五世紀初御瓷，
from the Qianlong period with motifs adapted from early 15th 典麗大方，雍正始燒，乾隆盛行。相類乾隆年製署款
century porcelain on forms inspired by bronze prototypes. 青花壺，世界各大公私收藏有見，如台北故宮博物院
Vases of this form were first produced at the imperial kilns in 藏品，見《故宮藏瓷：清青花瓷》，香港，1968年，
Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng reign (r. 1723-1735), but
their popularity peaked in the Qianlong period. 圖版2。南京博物院藏例，見《中國清代官窰瓷器》
，上海，2003年，圖版235。蘇富比也有例可參，如
Qianlong mark and period vases of this form and design 香港 1976年5月12/13日，編號160或倫敦1970年11月17
are held in important museums and private collections
worldwide; a vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is 日，編號108。
illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Blue 此式之壺，後朝續製，如道光年製署款例，見耿寶昌
and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, pl.
2; another in the Nanjing Museum, is published in The Official 編，《明清瓷器鑑定》，香港，1993年，圖版510。
Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003,
pl. 235; a third was sold in these rooms, 12th/13th May 1976,
lot 160; and a further vase was sold in our London rooms,
17th November 1970, lot 108.
Vases of this form continued to be made in the succeeding
reigns; see for example a Daoguang mark and period version
illustrated in Geng Baochang ed., Ming Qing ciqi jianding
[Connoisseurship of Ming and Qing Porcelains], Hong Kong,
1993, pl. 510.