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A FINELY PAINTED MING-STYLE BLUE
AND WHITE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

The pear-shaped body is well painted in cobalt blue with
plantain and bamboo growing beside rocks in a terraced
garden. The neck is encircled by a key-fret border dividing
a band of pendent ruyi lappets and a frieze of upright
plantain leaves, rising up the waisted neck with widely
flared mouth. The lower part of the body is surrounded by
lotus petal lappets, above a slightly splayed foot.
13 æ in. (35 cm.) high, box

HK$800,000-1,000,000
US$110,000-130,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Christie’s New York, 30 March 2005, lot 371

The present vase belongs to a group of 18th-century blue
and white bottle vases closely modelled after their Yongle
prototype, and appears to be the largest example in this
group. Similar 18th-century examples include two unmarked
vases, one painted with a lotus scroll, formerly in the YC
Chen Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2013,
lot 1936; the second painted with two birds perched on a
flowering tree, illustrated in The Alan Chuang Collection of
Chinese Porcelain, London, 2009, pp. 110-111, no. 33; and
a Yongzheng-marked vase similarly painted with rocks,
bamboo and plantain, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May
2005, lot 511. All three examples measure below 30 cm. high.

清雍正 青花竹石芭蕉紋玉壺春瓶

來源
紐約佳士得，2005 年 3 月 30 日，拍品 371 號

本件玉壺春瓶為清中期官窯仿永樂青花製作的復古
品種，並似為其中尺寸最大者。同類不署年款的例
子可參照一件陳玉階舊藏，2013 年 5 月 29 日於
香港佳士得拍賣，拍品 1936 號；以及一件繪花
鳥紋的例子，1998 年 6 月 16 日於倫敦蘇富比
拍賣，拍品 249 號，此件拍品後著錄於 2009
年倫敦出版《中國瓷器莊紹綏收藏》，101 至
111 頁，編號 33。與本件拍品同一畫片並帶
雍正年款的例子可參考 2005 年 5 月 2 日香港
蘇富比拍賣以上三例均不足於 30 公分高，拍
品 511 號。

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