A superbly enamelled doucai 'floral medallion' bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正　鬪彩團花紋斗笠盌　《大清雍正年製》款

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13th May 1976, lot 339 (one of a pair).

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13th November 1990, lot 342.

Hirano Kotoken.

Offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th April 1992, lot 202.

Sencha Dogu no Dogu Meihinsen [Masterpieces of Sencha Utensils and Noh Costumes, masks and instruments], Osaka Bijutsu Club, Osaka, 1994, cat. no. 60.

Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 102.

Shika Meisai: Ise Korekushon no Meito / Imperial Colors: Peerless Chinese Porcelains from the Ise Collection, Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 2015, cat. no. 49.

Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 66.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 76.

Chugoku Toji. Ise Korekushon / Chinese Ceramics. The Ise Collection, Tokyo, 2012, pp. 108-109.

Geijutsu Shincho [A Monthly Japanese Art Journal], Tokyo, May 2012 (supplementary volume), p. 10.

The four flowers blossoming in the enamelled medallions—peony, lotus, chrysanthemum, and prunus—represent the four seasons. This trope, also known as the 'Four Gentlemen', emerged during the Song dynasty (960-1279) and continued as a popular decorative motif through the Qing dynasty. The simultaneous efflorescence of plants that normally bloom at different times of the year symbolises the health of the universal order and the flourishing of all things within it. 

A closely related bowl, from the Qing Court collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 31; another in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, is published in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1956, pl. 64 (bottom); a third, in the Meiyingtang collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. IV, pt. II, pl. 1747; and an additional example, in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated in Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcom Macdonald Collection of Chinese Art, London, 1972, pl. CXXXIX. Further similar examples include a bowl from the collection of Paul and Helen Bernat, sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 10; another sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2005, lot 301; and a third sold in our New York rooms, 13th September 2017, lot 16. 

來源

香港蘇富比1976年5月13日，編號339（一對之一）

香港蘇富比1990年11月13日，編號342

平野古陶軒

上拍於香港蘇富比1992年4月28日，編號202

展覽

《煎茶道具・能道具名品選》，大阪美術俱樂部，大阪，1994年，頁60

《中国陶磁名品展―イセコレクションの至宝》，石川縣立美術館，石川，2012年，編號102

《瓷華明彩―イセコレクションの名陶》，五島美術館，東京，2015年，編號49

《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》，吉美博物館，巴黎，2017年，編號66

《イセコレクション―世界を魅了した中国陶磁》，大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館，大阪，2017年，編號76

出版

《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》，東京，2012年，頁108至109

《芸術新潮》，東京，2012年5月別冊，頁10

可比較一類例，為清宮舊藏，現存北京故宮博物院，錄於《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器》，香港，1989年，頁202，圖版31；另有一例，藏於納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館，堪薩斯城，載《世界陶磁全集》，卷12，東京，1956，圖版64（下）；第三相似作例，藏於古爾本基安東方藝術考古博物館，杜倫大學，錄於 Ireneus Laszlo Legeza 著《A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcom Macdonald Collection of Chinese Art》，倫敦，1972年，圖版 CXXXIX，編號378。一相若盌例，見於保羅白納德伉儷舊藏，售於香港蘇富比1988年11月15日，編號10；另見兩例，分別售於倫敦蘇富比2005年11月9日，編號301及紐約蘇富比2013年9月13日，編號16。