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The Property of A Hong Kong Collector

香港私人珍藏

(Lots 3327-3332)

3327 清乾隆 冬青釉葫蘆瓶 六字篆書款

A FINE AND VERY RARE CELADON-GLAZED 此器造型俊美，釉質瑩潤，蓋鈕作一小柄狀，頗具巧思。葫蘆瓶又稱「大
DOUBLE-GOURD VASE AND COVER 吉瓶」，因其外觀與「吉」字相似而得名。此式青釉葫蘆瓶帶原配蓋的
十分罕見，可參照 1992 年香港藝術館《清朝瑰寶》大展中的一件帶蓋
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 近似例，載於 1992 年香港出版《清朝瑰寶》，345 頁，編號 212；香港
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 中文大學文物館藏一帶蓋例，載於 1995 年香港出版《清瓷萃珍》，圖
錄編號 69；以及靜觀堂舊藏的一帶蓋例，1996 年 11 月 3 日於香港佳士
The vase is well potted with a compressed globular lower bulb 得拍賣，拍品 571 號。
rising from the countersunk base to a slightly smaller globular
upper bulb, surmounted by a long narrow mouth. The fitted cover
is potted with a short stem. Both are covered with a soft celadon
glaze.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, box

HK$2,000,000-3,000,000 US$260,000-390,000

Double-gourd vases are also known as dajiping ‘vase of good fortune’,
as the double gourd, or bottle gourd, symbolises fertility and good
fortune. It is very rare to find double-gourd vases with original covers.
A similar vase and cover was included in the exhibition Splendour of
the Qing Dynasty, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1992, p. 345, no.
212. Another double-gourd vase with its original small cover from the
Jingguantang Collection was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November
1996, lot 571, and again 28 October 2002, lot 723. Examples without
covers include one from the Zande Lou collection, illustrated in Qing
Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2005,
p. 118, no. 42; one included in the Exhibition of Qing Imperial Porcelain
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, 1995, no. 69; and one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: The
S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 106. See, also,
the vase sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3308; and
another from the Gordon Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 24
March 2011, lot 1135.

The shape and colour of the glaze of the present vase and related
pieces appear to be a Qing interpretation of earlier Longquan celadon
double-gourd vases from the Song dynasty, such as the example
illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 166,
no. 484.

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