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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL MOULDED GOURD BOWL
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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL MOULDED GOURD BOWL
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    HK$1,200,000 - HK$1,500,000
  • ($155,535 - $194,419)

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Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

A VERY RARE IMPERIAL MOULDED GOURD BOWL
KANGXI FOUR-CHARACTER SHANG WAN MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Crisply moulded with shou roundels alternating with stylised lotus-blossoms on the exterior between a keyfret band under the everted mouth rim and around the foot, the underside of the naturally formed base with moulded four-character mark, Kangxi Shangwan, 'For the appreciation and pleasure of the Emperor Kangxi', the lacquered interior finely gilt decorated in the well with detailed lotus-spray medallions, repeated around the cavetto, the gourd stained a rich tan colour, the interior with two tones of gold
4 1/2in. (11.5 cm.) diam.


清康熙 匏製蓮壽紋漆裏盌 《康熙賞玩》款

匏器是明朝末期出現的一種特殊工藝品，為明末太監梁九公首創，以康熙年間的製品最為有名。其製作方法是當葫蘆結果時，用各種形狀、花紋的模具將其夾緊，待其自然長成後再行裁割加工即成。匏器製品不加雕刻，自然清雅，為別具一格。 盌內壁的黑漆描金紋飾的風格、技法都近似日本的「蒔繪」工藝，可稱清代宮中一絕。

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VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Provenance

Galerie Eymery, Paris, 15 April, 1943
Professor & Mrs Robert de Strycker

Lot Notes

Compare a similar gourd bowl bearing a Kangxi shang wan mark decorated around the exterior with lotus-blossom roundels, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1998, lot 549; another with a Kangxi shangwan mark decorated around the exterior with Shou character medallions and two others with Qianlong marks with scrolling floral motifs, all illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss, Chinese Decorated Gourds, International Asian Antiques Fair Hong Kong Handbook, 1983, nos. 2, 4 and 5. Moulded gourds were not only popular with the literati as simple decorative objects but the double- gourd shape had allegorical associations with the Daoist Immortal Paradise, ibid, p. 51. A further example of stylised lotus-scrolls impressed on the surface of a garlic-neck vase is illustrated by Zhu Jiajin, Treasures of the Forbidden City, p. 209, fig. 80, where the author emphasised Imperial interest in these highly prized naturally grown gourds through a Qianlong poem Yong hu lu qi, 'Odes to a vase-gourd', which suggested that experiments in growing gourds had already been conducted by Emperor Kangxi in the Imperial West Gardens, located outside the Forbidden City.

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