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*80 清道光 御製黃地粉彩鏤雕蝙蝠九龍紋冠架
描金六字篆書款
AN IMPERIAL AND VERY RARE YELLOW-GROUND
FAMILLE ROSE ‘NINE DRAGONS’ HAT STAND 來源: 英國私人舊藏, 於1953年購自英國舊宅
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN GILT
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850) 冠架外壁施黃釉，繪九龍奔騰於祥雲間，開光內飾鏤空
蝙幅紋，能內置香料，帽則放於其上。此器造型精巧別
The fnely enamelled hat stand is decorated to the top with 致，色彩對比鮮明，充分呈現出道光時期華麗的風格以
reticulated roundels enclosing pink stylised bats, set against 及精湛的工藝，明顯繼承了乾隆嘉慶時期御製瓷器的遺
a lemon-yellow ground with nine fve-clawed dragons amidst 風，實屬當時粉彩瓷器中上乘之作。參考臺北國立故
clouds and fames. The mid-section is shaped as an archaistic 宮博物院藏之清乾隆琺瑯彩轉心活環鏤空雲龍帽架，載
vase with a lotus-form mouth supporting the top section, 1994年臺北出版《故宮歷代香具圖錄》，第267頁，圖
with the exterior enamelled with bats and lotus sprays. The 121。另，瀋陽故宮博物院藏一清乾隆款仿紅雕漆描金
lower bell-form section has further lotus scrolls, with four blue 纏枝花暗八仙冠架，載2008年瀋陽出版《瀋陽故宮博物
archaistic dragon-form supports, all raised on a foliate gilt- 院藏文物精粹:瓷器卷-下》，第188-189頁。
decorated base with ruyi-form feet.
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high

£200,000-300,000 $260,000-390,000
€230,000-340,000

PROVENANCE

Previously in a private UK collection, purchased from a country
house sale in 1953.

Compare this to a Qianlong mark and period famille rose
rotating hat stand-shaped perfumier decorated with dragons
and clouds in the collection of the National Palace Museum in
Taipei, illustrated in A Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and
Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994, p. 267, pl.
121. Also see a Qianlong mark and period red-glazed and gilt-
decorated porcelain hat rest in imitation of red lacquer ware,
illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang
Imperial Palace Museum: The Chinaware Volume - The Second
Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 188-189.