A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF WHITE-GLAZED CUT-THROUGH 'LOTUS' BOWLS, QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD | 清乾隆 白釉玲瓏透花番蓮紋盌一對 《大清乾隆年製》款

Yamanaka & Co., Chicago, 1st May 1937 ($375).

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

Christie's New York, 21st September 1995, lot 214.

芝加哥山中商會1937年5月1日（$375）

史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

紐約佳士得1995年9月21日，編號214

These delicate bowls are notable for their exquisite lace-like decoration, which was made by piercing the body with a delicate openwork design of small perforations that were subsequently filled with a clear glaze. An innovation of the Qianlong period, this decoration is known in the West as ‘grains-de-riz’ [rice grain], because the tiny perforations resembled small grains of rice.

Compare a closely related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 147; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in John Ayers and Satō Masahiko, eds, Sekai tōji zenshū/Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 280; one with a more elaborate motif, from the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 793, and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2012, lot 3; and a pair from the Alfred F. Pillsbury collection in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, included in the exhibition Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien-Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1952, cat. no. 320.

本對盌玲瓏透花以精細鏤空紋飾組成，後再填透明釉，乾隆年間創製，西方稱之為「grains-de-riz」（米粒），因其鏤空精細如米粒纖小。

比較一例，北京故宮博物院收藏，圖載於《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，香港，1989年，圖版147；台北故宮博物院亦藏一例，載於John Ayers及佐藤雅彦編，《世界陶磁全集》，卷15，東京，1983年，圖版280；另一例紋飾更為繁複，出自玫茵堂收藏，圖載於康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，卷2，倫敦，1994年，編號793，後售於香港蘇富比2012年10月8日，編號3。一對例出自Minneapolis Institute of Arts Alfred F. Pillsbury收藏，曾展於《Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien-Lung》，洛杉磯郡立博物館，洛杉磯，1952年，編號320。