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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清乾隆
A BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-MOUTH VASE 青花折枝花果紋蒜頭瓶
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 《大清乾隆年製》款
the body painted with alternating flowering and fruiting
branches of the sanduo arranged in two registers above 來源：
borders of lappets and crested waves, the neck with pendent
lappets enclosing double-trefoil motifs above a key-fret band 徐展堂（1940-2010年）收藏，香港徐氏藝術館
and ruyi heads, the mouth with a floral scroll below a further
key-fret frieze, the base inscribed with a six-character seal
mark, wood stand
27 cm, 10⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of T.T. Tsui (1940-2010), The Tsui Museum of Art,
Hong Kong.

HK$ 2,000,000-2,500,000
US$ 259,000-323,000

Elegantly shaped with smoothly sloping shoulders and 蒜頭瓶器形優雅，長頸垂肩，近口沿處圓鼓如蒜形，
elongated neck, suantouping or ‘garlic-mouth’ vases are 屬歷代官瓷造形中特為突出者，盛行於明、清二代。
among the most interesting vessel shapes of Chinese 清代御窰所造瓷瓶多為陳設器或花器，蒜頭瓶口斂，
porcelain. The form, featuring a distinctive bulbous mouth in
the shape of a garlic fruit, was popular in the Ming and Qing 適合插飾單枝花卉，或繁果枝條，正如同瓶身所繪折
dynasties. Generally, imperial porcelain vases during the Qing 枝花果。紋飾以青花點染鉤描，積料處色深濃豔，仿
period were manufactured for decorative purposes or as flower 傚早明青花瓷著名之鐵斑效果。
vases. Suantouping, with their typical narrow mouth, would
be suited to hold one flower or a single fruiting branch, which 此款青花蒜頭瓶初見於雍正朝，如一例1978年11月29
would match one of those depicted on the vase. Fired at the 日售於香港蘇富比，編號234，並盛行至清末，比較
imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, this attractive design is beautifully
rendered, successfully displaying the mottled ‘heaped and 一件嘉慶朝作例，藏於北京故宮博物院，錄於《故宮
piled’ effect of the most desirable of early Ming period blue- 博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅（下）》，香
and-white porcelains. 港，2000年，圖版145；還有一件關善明珍藏道光作
‘Garlic-mouth’ vases of this design were first produced in 例，展出於《關氏所藏晚清官窰瓷器》，香港中文大
the Yongzheng reign, such as a vase sold in these rooms, 學文物館，香港，1983年，編號1。
29th November 1978, lot 234. They continued to be popular
throughout the Qing dynasty.
博物館有藏類同乾隆署款青花蒜頭瓶。台北故宮博
Closely related vases with Qianlong mark and of the period are 物院藏品，錄於《故宮藏瓷》，香港，1968年，圖版
in several museums: in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 5a、5b、5c。北京首都博物館藏品，載於《中國古陶
illustrated in Gugong cang ci. Qing qinghua ci/Porcelain of the
National Palace Museum. Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing 瓷全集》，上海，1999-2000年，卷15，圖版8。南京博
Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, vol. 2, pls 5a-c; in the Capital 物院藏品，刊於《中國清代官窰瓷器》，上海，2003
Museum, Beijing, published in Zhongguo gu taoci quanji 年，頁211。上海博物館也有藏例，見周麗麗，《上海
[Complete series on Chinese ceramics], Shanghai, 1999-2000, 博物館藏品研究大系：清代雍正－宣統官窰瓷器》，
vol. 15, pl. 8; in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo 上海，2014年，圖4-18（中）。
Qingdai guanyao ciqi/The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese
Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 211; and in the Shanghai
Museum, illustrated in Zhou Lili, Qingdai Yongzheng-Xuantong 趙從衍舊藏有一例，1986年11月18日在香港蘇富比拍
guanyao ciqi [Qing dynasty official wares from the Yongzheng 出，編號81，轉入天民樓雅蓄，2019年4月3日再於香港
to the Xuantong reigns], Shanghai, 2014, pl. 4-18 centre. 蘇富比易手，編號14，圖見《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝
術館，香港，1987年，編號61。1986年11月19日香港蘇
富比拍出另一相類作例，編號225。馬錢特舊藏瓶則在
2020年7月11日經香港蘇富比拍出，編號3112。另有一
例售於紐約蘇富比，2006年3月30日，編號314。

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