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Lot 127
A fine and rare flambé-glazed vase Incised Qianlong seal mark and of the period
30 May 2017, 15:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceHK$600,000 - HK$700,000
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A fine and rare flambé-glazed vase
Incised Qianlong seal mark and of the period
With steep sides and slender neck converging towards a thickly lipped mouth, flanked by a pair of thin elephant-head handles, all lustrously decorated in a thick purplish-red glaze with striking streaks of creamy bluish glaze, the base incised with a six-character zhuanshu seal mark. 22cm (8 5/8in) high
With steep sides and slender neck converging towards a thickly lipped mouth, flanked by a pair of thin elephant-head handles, all lustrously decorated in a thick purplish-red glaze with striking streaks of creamy bluish glaze, the base incised with a six-character zhuanshu seal mark. 22cm (8 5/8in) high
Footnotes
清乾隆 窯變釉象耳尊 陰刻「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
The stylised elephant handles on the present lot can be interpreted as xiang, forming the pun taiping youxiang, meaning 'a sign of peacefulness'.
Similar flambé-glazed vases, Qianlong seal mark and period, can be found in important museum collections: compare one illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The Chinaware Volume, the Second Part , 2007, p.147; a similar vase in the Exhibition of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1943, no.915; a third flambé-glazed vase is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics: Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p.207; and another example, with obscured mark, is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol.2, Geneva, 1999, pl.259.
A similar flambé-glazed vase, Qianlong mark and period, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3111; and another similar example was sold in our London rooms, 8 November 2012, lot 120.
尊唇口，長頸，折肩，腹部內斂，圈足外撇，頸部有如意雙耳，其器形古拙且俊秀，釉面流淌自然，以紅、藍、月白三色交替變化，色彩斑斕，其底部施醬黃色釉，並刻「大清乾隆年製」六字三行篆書款。
參看瀋陽故宮博物院藏一件類似的乾隆窯變瓶，著錄於《瀋陽故宮博物院院藏精粹：瓷器卷二》，2007年，頁147；另見劉良佑著，《中國歷代陶瓷鑑賞5：清官窯及民窯》，台北，1991年，頁207；另見山中商會曾經展出一例，著錄於《Exhibition of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Co》，紐約，1943年，編號915；另見J.Ayers著錄瑞士鮑氏收藏一例，款識較為模糊，《Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection》，卷二，日內瓦，1999年，圖259。
香港蘇富比曾售出一件類似的乾隆窯變象耳瓶，2014年10月8日，拍品3111；另見倫敦邦瀚斯售出一例，原為意大利私人舊藏，2012年11月8日，拍品120。