清乾隆 松綠地粉彩雲龍紋撇口橄欖瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款

the elegant baluster body rising from a slightly splayed foot to rounded shoulders surmounted by a tall waisted neck flaring at the rim, painted to the body with lively dragons, each with a bifurcated tail and in a different colour and outlined in gilt, all soaring between pale green, deep blue and red lingzhi-shaped clouds, above breaking waves at the base, with a similar thin band of breaking waves at the shoulder below two further dragons and a thin band of ruyi at the rim, the turquoise base gilt-inscribed with a six-character seal mark

倫敦佳士得1996年12月16日，編號12

The centre of the base has been drilled through. There are typical enamel flakes, some overpainted with multicolour clouds. There are also original bubbling and crizzling to the enamels with occasional surface scratches, as well as wear to the gilt decoration.
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雍正在位年間，景泰藍並不甚受重視，但至乾隆之時，弘曆對銅胎掐絲琺瑯器尤為鍾愛，除大規模製作外，嘗下命以瓷仿傚，本品當屬其中。當時也有以銅胎畫琺瑯仿掐絲琺瑯之品，以描金細線代替曲捲銅絲。雖為倣模之作，但畫師在疊點彩料，營造深度，更形生動，如瓶上游龍，靈動如生，華麗悅目。

參考與此相近之對瓶，見於 E. Gorer 及 J. F. Blacker，《Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones》，倫敦，1911年，圖版188。另有一松石綠地穿雲游龍瓶，形與此近，先後售於紐約蘇富比1975年3月13日，編號465、香港蘇富比1987年5月20日，編號555和2005年5月2日，編號509。戴潤齋舊藏有一松石綠地仿掐絲琺瑯八吉祥紋例，見拍品編號3609。