A rare Longquan celadon 'pavilion and boys' basin, Ming dynasty | 明　龍泉青釉亭閣嬰戲盆

Collection of the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.

Scattered with swimming biscuit fish, a hidden serpentine head, scuttling crabs and a towering yet naive pagoda scene of boys at play, the present basin represents the often overlooked creativity and playfulness of vessels produced at the Longquan kilns. Basins and bowls featuring figural scenes are a rare but well-attested feature of Ming dynasty Longquan production. Compare a smaller foliate basin in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, featuring two boys at play amidst lotus fronds, included in Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, vol. I, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 155; another basin, also with foliate rim and moulded dragon head, featuring a Buddhist grotto scene to the interior, offered at Christie’s London, 8th December 1986, lot 324; and a very closely related basin of this type, design, and subject matter preserved in the Musée d’Ennery (fig.1), Paris (accession no. GUIMET2348-02), illustrated in the database of the Réunion des musées nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris

來源

徐氏藝術館收藏，香港

此器以極具巧思的構圖集遊魚、潛龍、行蟹與童子嬉戲寶塔場景於一體，展現了龍泉窰器物常被忽視的創意與童趣。帶有敘事性場景的盆缽類器皿雖數量稀少，但確為明代龍泉窰典型特徵。可比照實例包括北京故宮博物院藏一件較小蓮瓣式盆，內壁飾兩童子嬉戲於蓮花間，錄于《天下龍泉：龍泉青瓷與全球化》卷一，故宮博物院，2019年，編號155另一件同為蓮瓣口沿、模塑龍首紋，內底飾佛教洞窟場景，曾現於倫敦佳士得1986年12月8日，編號324。

巴黎恩纳里博物館藏近同類型作品（館藏編號GUIMET2348-02），其紋飾主題與本品高度一致（見圖一）圖像見於法國國家博物館聯合機構「大皇宮」資料庫。