清十八世紀 白地粉彩纏枝洋花「吉慶有餘」圖瓶

of baluster form supported on a splayed foot, the rounded sides rising to an angled shoulder and a waisted neck below an inverted rim, brightly decorated around the exterior in famille-rose enamels against a white ground with four large lotus blooms borne on foliate scrolls with attendant lotus and daylilies, each set below beribboned 'twin fish' suspending a pale green chime, finely detailed in shades of brown with gills and serrate fins, the neck further enamelled with four yellow and pink petalled flowers open in full bloom among feathery scrolls, below a border of florets and pink fleurs-de-lys at the rim, the foot skirted by upright multi-coloured lappets above sprays of florets and a raised iron-red foot painted with a gilt 'classic' scroll, the inside and base glazed in pale turquoise

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There is a 2 cm horizontal hairline crack to the inner rim of the mouth, which has been stabilised. The shoulder has a horizontal body line. There is also an original fine firing hairline crack of 1.3 cm to the unglazed footring. Apart from some expected surface scratches and minor enamel losses, the vase is otherwise in overall quite good condition. The enamels are generally well preserved.
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此品瓶身飾紋，細膩精緻，寓意吉祥。雙魚圖屬八吉祥紋之一，象徵排難解困，游刃自如，見 Teresa Tse Bartholomew，《中國吉祥圖案》，香港，2006年，頁185。此圖亦寄有魚水和諧，子嗣綿延，如意吉祥之意，出處同上，頁44。

飾紋風格相類、色彩鮮麗之白地纏枝蓮紋例作，器形不一，見一乾隆器並款，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．琺瑯彩．粉彩》，香港，1999年，圖版95。另一粉彩燈籠尊作例，曾售於香港蘇富比2008年10月9日，編號1504。亦有成對瓶例，紋飾相近，其唇口外捲作如意形瓣，束頸飾雙耳，折肩，下腹漸收，售於紐約佳士得2009年9月15日，編號467。