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3801 A MAGNIFICENT AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE
RUBY-GROUND YANGCAI 'TRIGRAM'
RETICULATED VASE,
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
清乾隆 御製洋彩紫紅錦地乾坤交泰轉旋瓶
《大清乾隆年製》款
of pear shape, with a revolving trumpet-shaped neck pivoting
on a cylindrical inner vase, the globular body cut along a
line of interlocking ruyi-heads and pierced with the eight
trigrams, the bright ruby ground finely incised in sgraffiato
with dense feather arabesques, reserved with stylised lotus
flowers borne on curling foliage issuing additional florets
and buds, the spreading foot encircled by a ruyi-band in red
and blue against a vivid lemon-yellow ground with similar
sgraffiato work, the waisted neck with interlinked ruyi and
floral designs on a pale blue and yellow ground, flanked by
two flat scroll handles enamelled in iron-red and gilt, the
flaring mouth rim with leafy sprays on a pale green ground,
the inner vase visible through the narrow openings, painted
in underglaze-blue with lotus scrolls in early Ming style, the
interior of the neck and the base enamelled in pale turquoise
green, the base reserved with a six-character seal mark
h. 31 cm

HK$ 60,000,000-120,000,000
US$ 7,650,000-15,300,000

PROVENANCE 來源：
Collection of Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch of 傳洛赫勛爵（1827-1900年）收藏
Drylaw (1827-1900), by repute. 英國威爾特郡蒂斯伯里放山居艾弗瑞．莫里森（1821-97年）收藏，
Collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), Fonthill House, 編號328，或自1861年始
Tisbury, Wiltshire, no. 328, probably since 1861. 蘇格蘭艾雷島馬格代爾勛爵（1906-96年）收藏
Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Margadale of Islay, 倫敦佳士得1971年10月18日，編號56
T.D., J.P., D.L. (1906-96). 吳權博士 (1910-97年) 收藏
Christie's London, 18th October 1971, lot 56. 吳蓮伯博物院，1971年至今，編號Q11.49
Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-97).
Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1971-present, coll. no. Q11.49. 出版：
詹甯斯，《Later Chinese Porcelain》，倫敦，1951年，圖版
CVII，編號1及頁71
LITERATURE
Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch’ing 柯玫瑰等，《吉塞島吳蓮伯博物館》，坎伯利，2011年，編號154
Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1951, pl. CVII, no. 1 and p.
71.
Rose Kerr et al, Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan
Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Camberley, 2011, cat.
no. 154.

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