清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋杏圓開光式福壽紋雙耳扁壺 《大清乾隆年製》款 |

香港蘇富比1978年11月2日，編號236

整體品相良好，惟一面蝙蝠下一處約0.3公分片紋。
我們很高興為您提供上述拍品狀況報告。由於敝公司非專業修復人員，在此敦促您向其他專業修復人員索取諮詢，以獲得更詳盡、專業之報告。

準買家應該檢查每款拍品以確認其狀況，蘇富比所作的任何陳述均為專業主觀看法而非事實陳述。準買家應參考有關該拍賣的重要通知（見圖錄）。

雖然本狀況報告或有針對某拍品之討論，但所有拍賣品均根據印於圖錄內之業務規則以拍賣時狀況出售。

This piece has been masterfully executed to resemble the celebrated blue and white wares of the early fifteenth century through the use of the ‘heaped and piled’ technique to render the designs. By carefully manipulating the cobalt pigment the craftsman of the present piece has successfully simulated the uneven blue tones characteristic of the early Ming period that occurred naturally as a result of the firing process.

A closely related example was included in The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, Beijing, 1987, p. 65; another was exhibited in Beauty and Tranquillity. The Eli Lily Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1983, cat. no. 116; and another from the T.Y. Chao family collection was included in the exhibition Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 66, recently sold with its pair in our rooms, 1st December 2017, lots 323 and 325. Two further flasks were sold
in these rooms, one from the collection of R.I.C. Herridge, sold 28th November 1978, lot 235, and the other, 27th April 1993, lot 166; and a fine example of this model was sold in our Paris rooms, 18th December 2009, lot 263.

The design of peaches and bats, with its highly auspicious message, appears to have originated in the Yongzheng reign (1722-1735) and grew in popularity during the Qianlong period (1736-1795), when it was represented in all possible media. The bat (fu) and peach (shoutao) create the pun fushou shuangquan (‘May you have both blessings and longevity’), which makes this piece particularly suited to be presented as a gift on the occasion of a birthday.