A Journey Through China’s History The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part II

A Journey Through China’s History The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part II

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A magnificent and possibly unique ruby-ground yangcai 'trigram' reticulated vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 御製洋彩紫紅錦地乾坤交泰轉旋瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款

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A magnificent and possibly unique ruby-ground yangcai 'trigram' reticulated vase,

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

清乾隆 御製洋彩紫紅錦地乾坤交泰轉旋瓶

《大清乾隆年製》款


of pear shape, with a revolving trumpet-shaped neck pivoting on a cylindrical inner vase, the globular body cut along a line of interlocking ruyi-heads and pierced with the eight trigrams, the bright ruby ground finely incised in sgraffiato with dense feather arabesques, reserved with stylised lotus flowers borne on curling foliage issuing additional florets and buds, the spreading foot encircled by a ruyi-band in red and blue against a vivid lemon-yellow ground with similar sgraffiato work, the waisted neck with interlinked ruyi and floral designs on a pale blue and yellow ground, flanked by two flat scroll handles enamelled in iron-red and gilt, the flaring mouth rim with leafy sprays on a pale green ground, the inner vase visible through the narrow openings, painted in underglaze-blue with lotus scrolls in early Ming style, the interior of the neck and the base enamelled in pale turquoise green, the base reserved with a six-character seal mark


h. 31 cm

Collection of Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch of Drylaw (1827-1900), by repute.

Collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, no. 328, probably since 1861.

Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Margadale of Islay, T.D., J.P., D.L. (1906-96).

Christie's London, 18th October 1971, lot 56.

Collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-97).

Wou Lien-Pai Museum, 1971-present, coll. no. Q11.49.


傳洛赫勛爵(1827-1900年)收藏

英國威爾特郡蒂斯伯里放山居艾弗瑞.莫里森(1821-97年)收藏,編號328,或自1861年始

蘇格蘭艾雷島馬格代爾勛爵(1906-96年)收藏

倫敦佳士得1971年10月18日,編號56

吳權博士 (1910-97年) 收藏

吳蓮伯博物院,1971年至今,編號Q11.49

Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch’ing Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1951, pl. CVII, no. 1 and p. 71.

Rose Kerr et al, Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Camberley, 2011, cat. no. 154.


詹甯斯,《Later Chinese Porcelain》,倫敦,1951年,圖版CVII,編號1及頁71

柯玫瑰等,《吉塞島吳蓮伯博物館》,坎伯利,2011年,編號154