A rare Imperial-tribute painted-enamel waterpot


Qianlong red-enamelled four-character mark and of the periodThe copper body of compressed cylindrical form, with gilt foot and mouth rim, the round shoulder finely enamelled with a band of leaves and flowers, rising from straight sides painted with a central band of four pairs of bright blue confronted kuilong forming taotie masks, set between rows of huiwen reserved against a pale turquoise ground, the interior and base white-enamelled, the base with the four-character red-enamel mark within a double square. 5.7cm (1/4in) diam.
|清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯仿古螭龍紋水丞礬紅「乾隆年製」楷書款Provenance:Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1 November 1952Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978)來源： 芝加哥長谷商會，1952年11月1日史蒂芬·瓊肯三世（1978年歿）舊藏Stephen Junkunc, III was born in Budapest, Hungary circa 1905, and emigrated to Chicago, Illinois as a young child, where his father Stephen Junkunc, II (d. 1948), founded General Machinery & Manufacturing Company in 1918. With the outbreak of World War II, General Machinery converted its shop for the war effort and began manufacturing various aircraft parts, including B-29 hydraulic spools on behalf of Ford Motor Company, who was sub-contracting work from engine maker Pratt & Whitney. Alongside his role as manager and part owner of the company, Stephen Junkunc, III spent his free time forming an important collection of Chinese art. Junkunc appears to have made his first acquisitions in the early 1930s. Many of Junkunc's early purchases came from Yamanaka, as well as from the leading London dealers Bluett & Sons, W. Dickinson & Sons, H.R.N. Norton and John Sparks.史蒂芬·瓊肯三世生於約1905年的匈牙利布達佩斯。1918年，其父史蒂芬·瓊肯二世（1948年歿）於伊利諾斯州的芝加哥創辦了通用機械製造公司，瓊肯三世隨之移民美國。二戰爆發之後，通用公司轉而為美軍製造各類飛機部件，包括代福特公司生產B29轟炸機的零件，而後者又是引擎製造商惠普公司的分包商。瓊肯三世作為公司股東管理公司之餘，亦建立起自己的中國藝術品收藏，他的第一件藏品大約購於1930年代。他的大多數藏品來自山中商會，以及倫敦聞名遐邇的古董商，包括Bluett & Sons、W. Dickinson & Sons、H.R.N. Norton 以及John Sparks。Compare with the similar chi dragons on a painted enamel dish and a painted enamel censer, Qianlong, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, vol. 5, Beijing, 2011, nos.134 and 209.銅胎，方唇，唇口鎏金，圓肩，琺瑯彩繪花草紋一周，直壁，正中繪藍彩螭龍紋，上下繪黑彩回紋各一匝，松石彩為地。足底鎏金一周，內裡及底部施白彩，底部正中以礬紅書「乾隆年製」四字款。可比較一件乾隆銅胎畫琺瑯盤及一件香爐，其螭龍紋頗類之，見《故宮博物院藏品大系琺瑯器篇5》，北京，2011年，編號134及209。