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PROPERTY OF A LADY 清雍正 霽藍釉天雞鈕蓋盌
A FINE BLUE-GLAZED BOWL AND COVER 《大清雍正年製》款
MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
來源：
moulded with two raised bowstrings above the foot, the domed
cover surmounted by a finial modelled in the form of a mythical 香港蘇富比2003年4月27日，編號166
sharp-beaked bird with outstretched talons, the exterior 東亞私人收藏
covered with a brilliant powder-blue glaze, the interiors left 香港蘇富比2017年4月5日，編號3632
white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark
18.7 cm, 7½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27th April 2003, lot 166.
An East Asian private collection.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th April 2017, lot 3632.
HK$ 1,800,000-2,500,000
US$ 233,000-323,000
This bowl and cover is an exceptional example of the technical 霽藍釉蓋盌，乃雍正御窰巧技臻絕之作，取材明代宣
perfection achieved by craftsmen working at the imperial kilns 德朝器制，仿古器形施以單色瓷，蓋頂天雞鈕，呼應
at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period. As with many 古青銅器，尚古文雅。蓋盌原型可參考台北故宮博物
Yongzheng period monochrome wares, this piece displays the
prevailing interest in archaism, as evidenced in its shape, a 院藏四件宣德窰青花作例，錄於《明宣德瓷器特展目
reinterpretation of the celebrated wares of the Xuande reign, 錄》，台北，1998年，編號50-53。
and the bird-shaped finial on the cover, which echoes the
Chinese bronze age. For the prototype of this piece, see four 2010年10月8日，香港蘇富比售出一件近類蓋盌，編號
blue and white bowls with Xuande marks and of the period, in 2636；另一例售於倫敦佳士得2002年6月18日，編號69
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s 。參考三件此類瓷盌，蓋已佚失，其一於香港蘇富比
Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of
the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. 1995年10月31日售出，編號421，另二例售於2008年4月
nos 50-53. 11日，編號2908、2909。
A closely related bowl and cover was sold in these rooms, 8th
October 2010, lo 2636; and another was sold at Christie’s
London, 18th June 2002, lot 69. See also three bowls of this
shape but lacking the cover, sold in these rooms, one, 31st
October 1995, lot 421, and the other two, 11th April 2008, lots
2908 and 2909.
Bowls of similar form are also known decorated in white slip
with fish against a blue ground, such as a Yongzheng mark
and period example, with its matching cover, in the Honolulu
Academy of Arts, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu/Catalogue of
World’s Ceramics, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1956, pl. 56; another in the
collections of George de Menasce, Pierre de Menasce and F.
Gordon Morrill, sold in these rooms, 20th May 1987, lot 586;
and a third, sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2005,
lot 309.
See also a Yongzheng mark and period bowl of this shape,
but covered overall in a yellow glaze and incised on the sides
with dragons, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society Jubilee
exhibition The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, cat. no. 244,
and sold at Christie’s London, 15th July 1981, lot 44.

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