清康熙 釉裏紅折枝花卉紋蘋果尊 《大清康熙年製》款

水丞呈球形，歛口內捲，圓腹，臥足。器外飾釉裏紅折枝盛開花卉四朵，包括牡丹、蓮花、茶花與菊花。口沿飾捲草及蓮紋，間以青花弦線，近足處則綴幾何蕉葉紋。底署青花三行六字無框楷款。

《Evolution to Perfection. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection》，Sporting d’Hiver，蒙地卡羅，1996年，編號146

康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷2，編號733

There is a four pointed star crack to the body with an associated flake in the glaze secured with resin, one prong extending on approx. 3.5 cm on one side and on approx. 11 cm toward the other side of the belly. There are two further associated hairline cracks at the rim (2 and 3 cm). The undeglaze red is more pale and the white background a little more bluish grey than the illustration would suggest in the catalogue.
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蘋果尊器形，為康熙一朝創新，見有單色釉如豇豆紅與天青釉作例。類同釉裏紅圖紋器，北京故宮博物院有藏，見《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，香港，1989年，頁39，圖版22。上海博物館亦藏相類器，收錄於汪慶正編，《上海博物館藏康熙瓷》，香港，1998年，圖版72。仇炎之舊藏有一相似釉裏紅蘋果尊，售於香港蘇富比1981年5月19日，編號540，現藏香港藝術館。另一蘋果尊，曾二度售於香港蘇富比，分別為1994年11月1日，編號173，及2004年10月31日，編號172，復於香港佳士得 2009年12月1日賣出，編號1885，刊錄於《香港蘇富比三十週年》，香港，2003年，圖版293。