清乾隆 銅胎畫北京琺瑯黃地龍鳳紋小瓶 《乾隆年製》款

the pear-shaped body supported on a low splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck below a flared rim, finely enamelled on the rich yellow ground with two large phoenix wreathed by their multi-coloured tail feathers, grasping in their beak a branch of lingzhi, each confronted by an archaistic kui dragon stylised with a beard and a slender scrolling body, all below a band of pink key-fret and upright ruyi-lappets at the slightly bulging shoulder, the neck draped by a flowering pomegranate scroll with attendant fruits and buds against a pale lavender ground, the interior turquoise, the rims gilt, the white base inscribed with a blue-enamelled four-character reign mark within double squares

（傳）Anne Bigelow Stern 夫人收藏 
Chait Galleries，紐約，購於1983年3月1日
倫敦佳士得2010年11月9日，編號288

There are a few light crackles and minute retouching in places. There is some pitting above the gilt mounted foot ring and a few specks in the yellow ground, but overall the vase and enamels are in quite good condition.
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此件畫琺瑯小瓶之精巧器形，源自康熙作例。前朝小瓶一般多畫花鳥翎毛題材。作例可見一件康熙年款畫琺瑯瓶，瓶身黃地上繪盛開花卉紋，錄於 Michael Gillingham，《Chinese Painted Enamels》，牛津，1978年，頁15，圖版6。另一件類同花卉紋小瓶，藏台北國立故宮博物院，著錄於《明清琺瑯器展覽圖錄》，台北，1999年，圖版86。還有一件作例，上畫繁花鳥獸，售於香港蘇富比1989年5月17日，編號 416。

此件拍品之圖紋，少見於此類乾隆朝小瓶，但知有一同朝蓋盌，黃地上繪鳳凰圖紋，出自清宮舊藏，現仍存北京故宮，刊錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集‧金屬胎琺瑯器》，香港，2002年，圖版203。

此瓶頸部圖紋之配色亦為罕有，較近似於康熙器，如一件畫琺瑯盌，淡紫地繪花卉紋，錄於《明清琺瑯器展覽圖錄》，前述出處，圖版79。康熙朝琺瑯器較常使用紫彩，或深或淺，尤其在粉紅琺瑯彩尚未被宮廷御作坊使用之前。