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A RARE LARGE IMPERIAL MOULDED GOURD 清乾隆 匏製花蝶龍蝠紋盌
BOWL 《乾隆賞玩》款
SHANGWAN MARK AND PERIOD OF
QIANLONG 來源：
永豐行，香港，1982年12月
the deep rounded sides skilfully moulded on the exterior with 水松石山房收藏
a repeated pattern of four butterflies, the wings made up of
a pair of arched kui dragons, interspersed by pairs of peony 香港蘇富比2009年10月8日，編號1815
sprays, all set between key-fret bands at the mouth and the
出版：
foot, the mouth bound with a bone band, the interior lacquered
in black and painted with randomly arranged gold medallions 曾柱昭及莫士撝，〈Chinese Decorated Gourds〉，
enclosing flowers, rocks-and-waves, bats, butterflies, and 《International Asian Antiques Fair, Hong Kong》，香
peaches, the underside moulded with a four-character 港，1983年，頁52，圖版4
Qianlong shangwan mark, the smooth patina of a warm russet Foon Koppen，〈Decorated Gourds〉，《In Asia》，
brown tone
17.7 cm, 7 in. 1993年秋，頁38
王世襄，《說葫蘆》，香港，1993年，頁43，圖9及頁76，
PROVENANCE 圖9
Yung Feng Co., Hong Kong, December 1982.
Collection of Water, Pine and Stone Retreat.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th October 2009, lot 1815.
LITERATURE
Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, ‘Chinese Decorated Gourds,’
International Asian Antiques Fair, Hong Kong, 1983, p. 52, pl. 4.
Foon Koppen, ‘Decorated Gourds,’ In Asia, Autumn, 1983, p.
38.
Wang Shixiang, The Charms of the Gourd, Hong Kong, 1993, p.
43, fig. 9, and p. 76, fig. 9.
HK$ 900,000-1,200,000
US$ 115,000-153,000

Three Qianlong period gourd bowls, from the collection of the humble folk craft into an imperial art form. For Kangxi-
Sir John Addis and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, marked examples, see one from the Eugene Fuller Memorial
London, are illustrated in Craig Clunas, Chinese Carving, Collection, Seattle Art Museum, published in J.M. Addis,
Singapore, 1996; one bearing the mark Qianlong shangwan ‘Impressed Gourds’, Oriental Art, vol. X, Spring 1964, p. 28, fig.
on the base, pl. 79; a bowl with an identical mark but with an 2; and another one included in Gems of Chinese Art from the
everted rim, pl. 80; and an unmarked example attributed to the Speelman Collection II, lot 3401.
18th century, pl. 82.
For a detailed discussion of the early history of moulded
The present elegant bowl takes its form after Kangxi imperial gourds see Wang Shixiang, ‘Moulded Gourds’, Gugong
prototypes. A major development in the moulding of gourds Bowuyuan Yuankan, 1979, no. 1, pp. 86-91, translated by Craig
commenced when the Kangxi Emperor commissioned gourd Clunas in the Oriental Ceramic Society Chinese Transactions,
vessels to be made in the Palace Workshop which transformed no. 10, London, 1981, pp. 16-30.

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