清乾隆 醬地描金粉彩「薊門煙樹」圖轎瓶 「乾隆」印

of flattened section with a baluster body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, the neck flanked by a pair of stylised blue and iron-red phoenix handles, the body decorated with a slightly recessed peach-shaped panel enamelled in famille-rose with a wondrous scene of the jimen yanshu ('Misty forest in Jimen'), highlighted with two scholars walking towards two pavilions set against a mountainous landscape, the setting detailed with ruyi-shaped cloud swirls and verdant vegetation, inscribed with an excerpt from a poem by the Qianlong Emperor and followed by a seal reading Qianlong, all within the café-au-lait ground gilt and silver-decorated in precise detail with lotus scrolls and butterflies, the interior enamelled turquoise, mounted to wood stand

購於巴黎，1990年代

There is a firing crack to the handle. There is also minor rubbing and oxidisation to the silver paint. Otherwise in good condition.
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本品轎瓶，細施粉彩，醬地描金，繪「薊門煙樹」圖景，題「南望帝京佳氣繞，五雲飛護鳳凰臺」詩句。

可參考一相類例，售香港蘇富比1978年11月29日，編號304。亦見一例，售倫敦蘇富比2005年11月9日，編號311。另見一對乾隆粉地壁瓶例，紋飾相類，售紐約蘇富比1994年11月28日，編號377。

瓷壁瓶者，明已有之，配以花葉，或置於室內，或掛於轎中，精美典雅。今北京故宮博物院藏「冰嬉圖」一幅，為金昆、程志道、福隆安等人合製，此圖所繪轎內，即見一瓶掛於其中，詳見《清代宮廷繪畫》，香港，1996年，圖版61。