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A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE LARGE FAMILLE
ROSE-ENAMELLED TURQUOISE-GROUND ‘BATS’ VASE
QIANLONG INCISED AND GILT SIX-CHARACTER SEAL
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The vase is exquisitely decorated on a turquoise ground with
iron-red bats suspending ribbon-tied auspicious emblems as
they swoop amidst multi-coloured lingzhi-shaped clouds, all gilt
outlined against the turquoise ground between a ruyi border at
the fared rim and a border of petal lappets above the foot, which
is encircled by a band of ruyi heads suspended from iron-red wan
emblems. The neck is fanked by a pair of handles formed by
ascending chilong with scrolling bifurcated tails fnely shaded in
iron-red with gilt detail.
26√ in. (68.3 cm.) high

£700,000-1,000,000 $910,000-1,300,000
€810,000-1,100,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s London, 27 November 1973, lot 327.
Christie’s London, 8 June 1987, lot 291.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1500.

LITERATURE

Christie’s Twenty Years in Hong Kong, 2006, pp. 222-23.

清乾隆 松石綠地粉彩洪福齊天大瓶 描金六字篆書刻款

來源: 倫敦蘇富比1973年11月27日拍賣, 拍品327號; 倫敦
佳士得1987年6月8日拍賣, 拍品291號; 香港佳士得2005
年5月30日拍賣,拍品1500號

出版: 著錄於2006年香港出版《香港佳士得20年》,
第222-223頁

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