清乾隆 仿官釉雙桃洗 《大清乾隆年製》款

the asymmetrical shallow bowl forming the outline of a peach with unevenly furled sides, the handle formed from a gnarled tree branch set with a plump peach, a lingzhi and curled leaves, all beneath an opaque milky blue-green glaze with faint crackles, thinning at the edges of the leaves and branches to reveal a dark body, fired on four spurs revealing the porcelain body beneath, the underside modelled with a shallow groove characteristic of peaches, marked on the base with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue, wood stand

仇焱之（1910-80年）收藏
胡惠春（1911-95年）收藏
紐約蘇富比1985年6月4日，編號59
香港佳士得1996年4月28日，編號58
玫茵堂收藏
香港蘇富比2011年4月7日，編號37

Helen D. Ling 及仇焱之，《抗希齋珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》，香港，1950年，卷4，編號175
康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷4，編號1800

The brush washer is in excellent condition. The glaze colour is consistent with the catalogue illustration.
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此件筆洗，承襲雍正原型，應屬乾隆早期作品。所用瓷土，精心煉選，令塑貼枝葉更形生動。比較一件極為相近，但尺寸略大之雍正筆洗，屬清宮舊藏，現藏北京故宮博物院，收錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．顏色釉》，香港，1999年，圖版207，同書收錄一件尺寸略小之乾隆作例，圖版217，為淺色瓷土所製，另收錄一件開片作例，底刻「內府」款（可能為燒成後刻寫），圖版232。和現拍品相比，兩洗之燒製時期應屬較後。