清雍正 粉青釉如意紋大盌 《大清雍正年製》款

the deep rounded sides rising from a short spreading foot to an everted rim, finely carved around the lower body with ruyi and lotus lappet bands, covered overall with a bluish-green glaze, the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue

Dulany's Gallery，伯明翰，密歇根州，1984年
美國私人收藏

This bowl has a 11cm crack to the foot, which runs up part of the side, with associated arc-shaped cracks running off it through the foot, which is associated to an 8cm crack to the interior foot. There are some very minor glazed inconsistencies to the rim and some minor scratches to the glaze to the interior.
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本盌器型雍雅，青釉瑩潤，紋飾精巧，實乃雍正年單色釉珍瓷之臻品。相近之雍正年盌例極其稀罕，現知僅只數例，其一藏於波士頓美術館，波士頓，曾展於紀念特展《The Charles Hoyt Collection》，波士頓，1952年，編號440。另一例出自Hall家族收藏，編號392，售於紐約蘇富比1977年11月5日，編號227，後於香港蘇富比易手，1978年11月28日，編號197，圖錄於《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版314。另可比兩例，售於香港蘇富比1981年5月20日，編號819及1981年11月25日，編號313。另一例售於香港佳士得2006年5月30日，編號1346。再比一例，光緒年器並款，曾展於香港中文大學文物館（1983年）及台北國立歷史博物館（1985年），圖見《關氏所藏晚清官窰瓷器》，香港，1983年，圖版149。