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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND FINELY 清乾隆 粉彩描金夔龍紋蓮花口供器一對
ENAMELLED PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE AND 《大清乾隆年製》款
GILT-DECORATED ‘LOTUS’ ALTAR VASES
BLUE ENAMEL SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD 來源：
OF QIANLONG 美國私人收藏
紐約佳士得2009年3月19日，編號761
each skilfully potted with a baluster body rising from a short
splayed foot to a tall neck with a shapely statuesque profile,
the neck with elaborate contours flaring out and curving
inwards and surmounted by a large hemispherical mouth
enamelled with three registers of upright lotus petals below a
speckled green band, the neck and upper shoulder decorated
with six bands of floral scrolls, four against a vibrant yellow
ground and three against a pastel pink ground, all above a
wide frieze encircling the body and picked out in blue and
gilding with a dense pattern of intertwining kui dragons and
foliate scrolls, the foot skirted by a further yellow-ground
border enclosing a floral scroll, the interior and base enamelled
turquoise, the base further centred with a blue enamel seal
mark within a white cartouche
26.2 cm, 10¼ in.

PROVENANCE

An American private collection.
Christie’s New York, 19th March 2009, lot 761.

HK$ 8,000,000-12,000,000
US$ 1,040,000-1,550,000

Marks SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比
206