拍品 3206
  • 3206

A SUPERB AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS' BOWL MING DYNASTY, CHENGHUA PERIOD |

估價
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 HKD
招標截止

描述

  • ceramic
  • 22.5 cm, 8 7/8  in.
with deep rounded sides supported on a sturdy short foot, the exterior of the thick walls exquisitely depicted in shaded tones of cobalt with a continuous garden scene depicting twenty boys divided in several groups, including one with a boy riding a hobby-horse in the shade of a large leaf held up by another, another with two boys portrayed catching fish with their hands immersed in the water of a large fishbowl, and another of four boys rendered sitting on the ground, the dynamic and joyous scene further detailed with ornamental rockwork and verdant trees, the balustraded background picked out with a lotus pool, all against a distant mountainscape and ruyi clouds encircling the rim, below a double-line border repeated on the inner rim, the straight foot skirted with a key-fret border

來源

倫敦蘇富比1972年5月23日,編號127
香港蘇富比1974年10月31日,編號69
香港蘇富比1989年11月14日,編號25

展覽

《求知雅集珍藏中國古陶瓷展》,香港中文大學,香港,1981年,編號71(圖片反置)

出版

楊勝德及馬紀恩,《中國青花瓷器》,新加坡,1978年,彩圖28

Condition

The bowl is of very good condition except 2 minute flakes to the rim, one associated with a 5 mm glaze line. the bowl is slightly warped.
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拍品資料及來源

此盌器形規整,胎質細膩,妙畫童子,活潑瀟灑,釉質溫潤,撫之如脂,溢成化瓷器特色,誠當朝典範。

此類嬰戲圖盌,多無署年款,因而難以斷代,引起各界爭論。現今看法,此類瓷盌應屬成化之器,或製於明中「空白期」正統、景泰、天順年間,是以臻美精工,無疑乃官窰之器,卻無署年款。此嬰戲圖飾,則早見於永樂器,如《天民樓藏瓷》所載一例,香港藝術館,香港,1987年,編號15。嬰戲圖紋樣也可見於宣德年款瓷,參考《明代宣德官窰菁華特展圖錄》,故宮博物院,台北,1998年,編號152。

上海博物館藏兩件瓷盌,與此器相近,皆無年款,斷代為十五世紀中期,錄於陸明華,《明代官窰瓷器》,上海,2007年,圖版3-55及56。另有一盌,歸納為正德瓷,錄於耿寶昌,《明清瓷器鑑定》,香港,1993年,頁117,圖220。大英博物館亦有一盌,著錄於霍淑吉,《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》,倫敦,2001年,編號6:2,斷代成化。其他斷代成化之盌,還可參考1940年在倫敦蘇富比拍出之例,曾先後入喬治.尤莫弗普勒斯(George Eumorfopoulos)、艾弗瑞.克拉克夫人(Mrs Alfred Clark)、弗雷德里克.奈特(Frederick Knight)及趙從衍雅藏,三度售於香港蘇富比,分別為1982年、1985年及1987年5月19日,編號240。香港佳士得2013年11月27日且拍出一例,編號3113,該盌曾先後入 A.D. Brankston、H.R.N. Norton 及瑞蒙德.里埃斯科(Raymond F.A. Riesco)雅蓄。美國總統赫伯特.胡佛(Herbert Hoover)舊藏青花盌,也可資比對,該器後傳予其幼子 Allan Hoover 及其夫人,再為玫茵堂所藏,收錄於康蕊君,《玫茵堂藏中國陶瓷》,卷4,倫敦,2010年,圖版1671,2012年10月9日於香港蘇富比拍出,編號46。

現存大英博物館之大維德爵士舊藏《古玩圖》,記錄雍正御藏珍器,繪製於雍正六年(1728年),其中二疊共十只瓷盌,與此盌近似,圖見康蕊君,前述出處,頁49,圖12。

景德鎮明官窰遺址成化年代地層,曾出土四種構圖各異之嬰戲圖盌,俱帶成化年款,紋飾與本品類近卻不盡相同,錄於《The Emperor’s broken china. Reconstructing Chenghua porcelain》,倫敦蘇富比,1995年,編號54-7,其中兩件圖見於頁52-3及封套;另兩件則錄於《成窰遺珍:景德鎮珠山出土成化官窰瓷器》,徐氏藝術館,香港,1993年,編號C72及C73。

百子圖,自宋有之,明朝復興,乃常見工藝瓷器飾紋。中國傳統男尊女卑,多求兒孫滿堂,負起𧙈堂祭祖、傳宗接代之責,更望子嗣金榜高中,進仕入朝,從此榮祿無憂。是以明朝宮廷繪畫及工藝器物所飾嬰戲圖,背景多為園林雅庭,童子錦衣華服,所戲所玩,皆隱喻祥瑞榮壽。如盌上所畫持蓮童子,有連生貴子之意,此飾早見於宋,初與七夕之習相關。旁繪童子騎木馬,寓意馬上得子,且畫缸中撈魚,寄年年有餘之望。