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A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
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A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
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(Set Currency)
    HK$3,800,000 - HK$4,500,000
  • ($491,809 - $582,405)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Well painted in Ming style with 'heaped and piled' effect, around the lower body with a broad band of foliate scroll bearing eight large blossoms, between waves around the base and a ruyi collar at the angled shoulders, the upper body with similar bands of waves, floral bands and pendant trefoils, the wave pattern repeated on the tubular handles and mouth rim
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high


清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋貫耳壺 六字篆書款

壺撇口，長頸，兩側有貫耳，折肩，斂腹，圈足外撇。通體青花紋飾，口沿下飾海水紋和如意雲頭，頸中部及近肩出繪兩層纏枝蓮紋，中間以如意雲頭，肩及雙耳飾海水紋。折肩下環飾意雲頭，器腹飾纏枝蓮紋，近足處繪海水紋，足牆飾蓮瓣紋。圈足內青花書「大清乾隆年製」六字篆書款。

乾隆青花以紋飾繁密、染畫工整、造型新奇取勝。此器造型碩大，敦厚端莊，青花色澤明快，紋飾精細、繁而不亂。乾隆青花以紋飾繁密、染畫工整、造型新奇取勝，為典型乾隆青花器。

此器源自英國何活爵士 (Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood, 1883-1952)收藏，1994年6月7日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品358號。

何活爵士，獲授K.C.B.、K.C.V.O.及C.B.E勳銜，1922在喬治五世在位其間擔任財政部副部長至1936年喬治六世去世，續任至愛德華八世，及喬治六世。曾掌管皇室庶務。此器應為瑪麗皇后賞賜的禮物，原藏溫莎堡。

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THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN GENTLEMAN

Provenance

Collection of Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E.
Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 7 June 1994, lot 358

Lot Notes

Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood (1883-1952), served as Deputy Treasurer to His Majesty, King George V from 1922 until the King's death in 1936. Sir Ralph continued as Deputy Treasurer to King Edward VIII and briefly served King George VI. He was also Controller of the Royal Household. This vase is believed to have been presented to Sir Ralph by Queen Mary and to have come from the Royal Collections at Windsor Castle.

An identical vase was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 63. Another hu-shaped vase of this design but potted with an upright rather than flared mouth rim, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book 1, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1968, pl. 3. See also the very similar vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1480.

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