Lot 6001 A fine and rare miniature blue and white 'lotus’ garlic-mouth vase, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正　青花團花紋小蒜頭瓶　《大清雍正年製》款

A fine and rare miniature blue and white 'lotus’ garlic-mouth vase, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正　青花團花紋小蒜頭瓶　《大清雍正年製》款

HKD 1,500,000

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 HKD

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Fine overall condition. 整體品相佳。

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wood stand
10.8 cm
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说明：香港家族收藏（拍品編號 6001–6013 及 6080–6086）
此香港家族舊藏承傳自外祖父。 出身東亞顯赫家族的外祖父為實業家，受家族族人收藏氛圍所熏陶，早於上世紀20年代開始蒐藏，範圍廣泛涵蓋書畫，金石文房，瓷器等。 除將收藏品借展博物館，亦曾和收藏家友儕合作著錄，讓藏品公諸同好。 二戰後，他的事業版圖擴展至香港，是以經常穿梭兩地。是次上拍的瓷器收藏，以明清瓷器為主，均陳置於其建於40年代的大宅的廳堂及書齋。 經歷逾半世紀後，從未曝光的藏品重現，讓鑑賞文士能再睹風華，亦可觀藏家之品味雅趣及嚴選善鑑。
An Old Hong Kong Family Collection (Lots 6001–6013 and 6080–6086)
Passed down through the family from the present owner’s grandfather, this collection has its beginnings in the life and interests of an industrialist from a prominent East Asian family. Raised in an environment steeped in the culture of connoisseurship, he began acquiring works of art in the 1920s. His interests ranged widely, encompassing painting and calligraphy, epigraphic and scholar’s objects, ceramics, and the many refined pursuits of the cultivated studio.
Works from the collection were lent to museums for exhibition, while selected pieces were illustrated in publications produced in collaboration with fellow collectors, opening the collection to a wider circle of connoisseurs. After the Second World War, his business interests extended to Hong Kong, and his life came to be divided between Hong Kong and his home country.
The ceramics offered here are principally from the Ming and Qing dynasties. For decades, they were displayed throughout the family residence, built in Hong Kong in the 1940s, among its living rooms and studies, quietly accompanying the daily life of a family shaped by taste, scholarship, and the pleasures of collecting.
After more than half a century beyond public view, these works now pass once again into the wider world. Their return offers an opportunity to appreciate their beauty anew, while also providing a glimpse into the cultivated taste and discerning eye of the collector who assembled them.
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Sophisticated in its simplicity and understated elegance, this vase typifies Yongzheng imperial porcelain at its best. The graceful, unassuming shape is perfectly complemented by the minimalist, elegant design of stylised lotus flowers beautifully articulated in varying tones of delicate cobalt-blue, reminiscent of the heaping and piling of early Ming blue and white porcelain. Indeed, the elegant yet complex design of eight ruyi-shaped petals forming these stylised lotus flowers is almost star-shaped, reminiscent of the Islamic-style decoration on Yongle blue and white porcelains, such as on a moonflask from the Pilkington collection, sold in these rooms, 6th April 2016, lot 17. During the short reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, Qing imperial wares reached their apogee attaining an exquisite finesse, rarely found in those of later periods. The Emperor was fascinated with antiquity and is known to have sent numerous pieces of different ancient ceramic styles to the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen so that craftsmen could use them as examples in the creation of new pieces. The shape of this vase, known as suantouping with its bulbous head, appears to be based on archaic bronze prototypes, such as a pair attributed to the Western Han period, sold twice in our New York rooms, 12th/13th March 1975, lot 157, from the Estate of Harriet H. Jonas, and again, 22nd March 2011, lot 191, from the collection of J.T. Tai & Co.
Only one other closely related example appears to be published, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum collection], Beijing, 2005, vol. 1, part 1, pl. 21. See also a similar Yongzheng mark and period example, sold in these rooms, 11th July 2020, lot 3606; and a further example of similar size, but with the Yongzheng mark written in three columns, as opposed to two columns on the current example, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th November 2011, lot 2938.
此瓶器形簡約，線條流麗，配以寶相花紋，點飾淡雅鈷青，仿明初青花鐵斑，別富古韻，朗逸清新，展現雍正御瓷極致。寶相團花，八片瓣葉呈如意雲頭之狀，與永樂青花上之阿拉伯式圖案相類，例如琵金頓舊藏扁壺，2016年4月6日在香港蘇富比拍場上成交，編號17。 雍正一朝，國祚甚短，但御瓷製作大盛其藝，造器精細入微，無與倫比，後世無出其右。世宗慕古，嘗命景德鎮御窰依古瓷樣式摹作，再造新瓷。蒜頭瓶之式，高古銅器早已有之，如斷代東漢成對之例，先後為 Harriet H. Jonas 及戴潤齋寶蓄，曾兩度售於紐約蘇富比，分別為1975年3月12/13日，編號157，以及2011年3月22日，編號191。
據錄，與此相近之例，僅見北京故宮博物院所藏，圖見《故宮博物院藏清代御窰瓷器》，北京，2005年，卷1，上冊，圖版21。 另參考一近似例，售於香港蘇富比2020年7月11日，編號3606；再有一例，尺寸與此接近，2011年11月30日經香港佳士得拍出，編號2938，但其雍正年款分三行書寫，而非如此品之雙直行款。