Dr Alice Cheng’s Falangcai bowl ranks among the most legendary pieces ever to have been offered at auction and broke a world record for Chinese art when it was sold in 2006 for HK$151,320,000. It is a gem of Imperial porcelain, the delicate, creamy white body having been painted by master court enamellers in Beijing in close proximity of the Qianlong Emperor. The superb painting of two loving swallows beside a flowering apricot tree intertwined with a willow tree is complemented by a short poem evocative of the spring. During the latter years of the Qing dynasty, the bowl and its pair entered the collection of Captain Charles Oswald Liddell, whose collection was sold in 1929. One bowl entered the collection of Sir Percival David and is today the pride of the British Museum. The present bowl then entered the collection of Charles Ernest Russell, Barbara Hutton, J.T. Tai, Tianminlou, Robert Chang and since 2006 has been the crown jewel of the celebrated collection of Dr Alice Cheng. 

張永珍博士珍藏琺瑯彩盌，拍賣場上傳奇珍品之一，早在2006年以151,320,000港元刷新中國藝術拍賣紀錄。此御瓷瑰寶，胎質細密，均淨乳白，繪畫精緻入微，成於乾隆寢宮之鄰，由北京宮中琺瑯作藝匠繪就，妙不可言。畫顧盼雙燕比翼飛，宣布春臨大地，旁有柳枝搖曳、杏花相倚，添書古詩，意趣盎然。其流傳歷史清晰，來源可遠溯清末年間十九世紀，Charles Oswald Liddell 上校蒐得杏林春燕盌成對，他的收藏在1929年釋出，從此對盌分隔兩地。對盌其一轉入中國藏瓷名家大維德爵士雅蓄，現存大英博物館。而此盌則先後為Charles Ernest Russell、芭芭拉．赫頓（Barbara Hutton）、戴潤齋、天民樓及張宗憲遞藏，2006年易手予張永珍博士，讓這名藏更顯輝煌。

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