A fine guan-type hexalobed bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 仿官窰葵口盌 《乾隆年製》款

Collection of R.F.A. Riesco (1877-1964), no. 731.

Christie's Hong Kong, 1st October 1991, lot 1064A.

里埃斯科（1877-1964年）收藏，編號731

香港佳士得1991年10月1日，編號1064A

Notable for its elegant form and subtle bluish glaze suffused with fine streaks of golden-brown crackles, this well-potted bowl embodies the Qianlong Emperor’s fondness for celebrated Guan ware of the Southern Song dynasty. See a similar 'guan'-type bowl with a Qianlong seal mark and of the period, but without the dressing at the mouthrim in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, Taipei, 1989, pl.69. Compare another bowl of similar form and glaze, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.II, London, 1994, pl. 879. 

此葵口盌造型雅緻，通體施仿官釉，釉面瑩潤，有冰片狀裂紋，開片較大，其瓷質光滑潤澤，猶如溫玉。雍正乾隆兩帝均慕古尚雅，因此兩朝御窰廠仿宋代官窰器的製作空前興盛。類似之例，見台北故宮博物院藏一例，但口沿為施釉作「紫口」，見《宋官窰特展》，台北，1989年，圖版69。另見玫茵堂舊藏一例，著錄於康蕊君，《玫茵堂藏中國陶瓷》，卷2，倫敦，1944年，圖版879。