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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋杏圓開光式福壽紋雙耳扁壺
A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEACH AND BAT’ 《大清乾隆年製》款
MOONFLASK
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源：
香港蘇富比1978年11月2日，編號236
the flattened circular body rising from a short splayed foot to a
waisted neck flanked by a pair of ruyi handles, moulded in low
relief to either side with a peach-shaped panel painted in rich
tones of cobalt with simulated ‘heaping and piling’ depicting a
pair of bats flying among fruiting sprays of peaches, reserved
on a leafy floral scroll ground, the neck decorated with a lotus
scroll below a band of upright ruyi and a lingzhi scroll encircling
the mouth-rim, the handles carefully shaded in washes of blue,
the narrow sides painted with foliate lingzhi and the foot picked
out with a ‘classic’ scroll, the base inscribed in underglaze blue
with a six-character seal mark, wood stand
24 cm., 9⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd November 1978, lot 236.
HK$ 1,500,000-2,000,000
US$ 192,000-256,000

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