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PROPERTY OF A LADY 清乾隆 釉裏紅折枝瑞果紋梅瓶
A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY RARE COPPER- 《大清乾隆年製》款
RED ‘FRUIT’ MEIPING
來源：
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
迦納爵士（1891-1977年）收藏
elegantly modelled after an early Ming dynasty prototype, 香港蘇富比1978年5月23日，編號107
superbly potted with rounded shoulders rising at a gently
展覽：
flaring angle from the base and sweeping to a short waisted
neck with a slightly everted mouth, the exterior deftly painted 萊切斯特博物館，萊切斯特，借展
with a wide frieze of five sprays arranged in an alternating 《Chinese and Japanese Ceramics from the Collection
double register, the upper register showing detached peach,
of Sir Harry and Lady Garner》，Bluett & Sons Ltd，倫
pomegranate and finger citrus, the lower register with lychee
敦，1973年，編號52，圖版XXI
and loquat, the leafy branches further issuing small blossoms
and buds, the shoulders draped by a band of pendent lotus 出版：
lappets enclosing elaborately picked out trefoils, below the
詹甯斯（Soame Jenyns），《Later Chinese Porcelain.
waisted neck collared by interlocking ruyi heads with stylised
leafy florets, the foot further bordered by a band of upright The Ch’ing Dynasty (1644-1912)》，倫敦，1951年，圖
overlapping plantain leaves, all painted in soft washes of 版XXII，圖2
copper red of a rosy-pink tone with occasional speckles of
apple green, accented by simulated ‘heaping and piling’
effect, the recessed base centred with an underglaze-blue six-
character seal mark
29.7 cm, 11¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977).
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23rd May 1978, lot 107.

EXHIBITED
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, on loan.
Chinese and Japanese Ceramics from the Collection of Sir
Harry and Lady Garner, Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1973, no.
52, pl. XXI.
LITERATURE
Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch’ing Dynasty
(1644-1912), London, 1951, pl. XXII, fig. 2.
HK$ 3,500,000-4,500,000
US$ 448,000-580,000

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