清乾隆 青花枇杷壽桃紋明式執壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

the pear-shaped body tapering up to a narrow neck and an everted rim, set on one side with a curved spout joined to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut, opposite the arched strap handle adorned by grooves and surmounted by a small loop on top and accented with three knobs of clay at the base, imitating metalwork studs, finely painted in early Ming style with deep cobalt imitating 'heaping and piling,' with a quatrefoil panel on either side, one enclosing a branch of peaches with two fruit among blossoms and foliage, the other with a branch of loquat with many stylised fruit, the panels flanked by flowers of the 'Four Seasons' with pomegranate, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, all between the neck collared by a lotus scroll and upright plantain leaves, and the foot skirted with a band of upright lappet petals, the spout decorated with a knobby scroll, with ruyi-clouds on the strut and sprays of lingzhi on the handle, inscribed on the base with a six-character reign mark, the married cover slightly domed and set with a ring knob, similarly decorated with a lotus scroll encircling a band of pendent petals

香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號233
倫敦佳士得2008年5月13日，編號201

In overall good condition, apart from a 0.7 cm flake to the inner footring, as well as a couple of fine firing lines to the base of the stout. There are a few glaze crackles around the upper joint of the handle. The ewer and the cover are married, but both are of the period.
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永樂青花執壺，享負盛名，其器形設計可上溯元朝，並以洪武執壺為基礎，改良成清雅可愛之品。永樂一朝，相若執壺紋飾多樣，如有繪牡丹者，但相比之下，壽桃枇杷紋最為常見，至清朝時仍有燒製。

明御窰永樂遺存出土執壺，復修後於《景德鎮珠山出土永樂官窰瓷器》展出，首都博物館，北京，2007 年，編號66，可資比較。

北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏乾隆青花執壺，同飾壽桃枇杷，圖見耿寶昌編，《故宮博物院藏明初青花瓷》，北京，2002 年，下冊，圖版210，該書並錄一件永樂朝雛本，見上冊，圖版19，以及宣德朝例子，上冊，圖版95 及96。北京故宮博物院也藏嘉慶壺例，收錄於耿寶昌編，《故宮博物院藏古陶瓷資料選萃》，北京，2005 年，卷2，圖版249。伊斯坦堡托普卡比宮殿博物館另藏相類乾隆器例，以及兩把永樂執壺，圖刊於康蕊君，《Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul》，John Ayers 編，倫敦，1986年，卷3，編號2565，以及卷2，編號618。乾隆朝例子也見於上海博物館，收於陸明華，《上海博物館藏品研究大系：明代官窰瓷器》，上海，2007 年，頁239，圖版5-1。台灣故宮博物院存一件連蓋執壺，見於《故宮瓷藏：清青花瓷（二）》，香港，1968 年，圖版14。