清乾隆 銅胎畫北京琺瑯開光式「文士雅集」圖雙耳小盃 《乾隆年製》款

the well-wrought copper body with deep rounded sides rising from a short waisted foot to a flared rim, set with two gilt archaistic dragon-fish handles, the exterior exquisitely decorated in stippled enamels with two rectangular landscape panels within strapwork borders, each depicting in an European style a gathering of scholars near a lake with mountains and trees in the distance, in one scene three sages are conversing next to a pavilion, another stands holding a gnarled staff while their companion is leaning against a tree trunk, gazing at the sunrise in the distance, in the second a scholar followed by a child attendant carrying a wrapped qin addresses three others standing in front of rocks and houses, all reserved on a bright yellow ground picked out with dense crimson-red foliate scrolls, between a pale blue border at the rim and a pale blue 'classic' scroll around the foot, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed in blue enamel with a four-character reign mark within double squares

Madame Nelly Loup-Borel 收藏，日內瓦
香港佳士得2006年5月30日，編號1569

There are some firing flaws, fine crackles and bubbles in the turquoise enamel on the interior, some retouching and light dents to the enamels under the rim, but overall the cup is in quite good condition.
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此雙耳小盃乃清宮造辦處，最重要作坊之一「琺瑯作」所造之日常用器。琺瑯作專事掐絲琺瑯、鏨胎琺瑯，以及金屬、瓷胎、料胎畫琺瑯等。康熙一朝，造辦處始造金屬胎畫琺瑯，至乾隆時期，工匠已熟練能造多式器物，包含飾件及日常用器，設計極為精巧，品質卓越。此盃之人物圖受西洋畫風格之強烈影響，然題材卻是傳統中式。畫琺瑯器少見中式人物圖，反而多作西洋人物景致，繪中國文人置身山水題材者，更是罕有。畫匠運用西洋立體陰影畫法技巧，仔細描繪山水、樹木、樓閣及人物，尤其畫中文人之面容表情，及衣袍垂墜之感，精細如真。中式題材之畫琺瑯器，可見一蓋罐作例，上繪中式母嬰圖，現藏北京故宮博物院，錄於《中國金銀玻璃琺瑯器全集》，卷6：琺瑯器（二），石家莊，2002年，圖版129。

北京及台北故宮皆藏有類同雙耳盃，器形與圖紋略有不同，均出自清宮舊藏。此類作例，可見一畫琺瑯雙雲形耳盃，繪西洋母嬰圖，與其相配之盃托同錄於《故宮琺瑯器選萃》，台北，1971年，圖版35。另有兩件類同雙耳盃，盃身細繪纏枝花卉紋，著錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集‧金屬胎琺瑯器》，香港，2002年，圖版204及205。