The Three Emperors: Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns from the Yidetang Collection
The Three Emperors: Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns from the Yidetang Collection
A very fine and rare pair of iron-red and gilt-decorated 'phoenix' bowls, Marks and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 礬紅描金鳳凰紋盌一對 《大清康熙年製》款
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A very fine and rare pair of iron-red and gilt-decorated 'phoenix' bowls
Marks and period of Kangxi
清康熙 礬紅描金鳳凰紋盌一對 《大清康熙年製》款
each delicately potted with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a gently everted rim, the exterior decorated in iron-red enamel and gilt with a male phoenix with its long tail stretched behind, in pursuit of a female phoenix with shorter ribboned tail, amidst stylised cloud scrolls, inscribed to the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
11.1 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th-9th November 1982, lot 182.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th April 2003, lot 209.
香港蘇富比1982年11月8-9日，編號182
香港蘇富比2003年4月27日，編號209
Bowls of the same design and decoration technique are rarely seen at auction, although a few examples can be found in museums. See a similar bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 14; and another, also from the Palace Museum collection but transferred to Sichuan Museum in 1957, and now displayed in the Porcelain Room of the New Wing.
Iron-red and gilt decoration was very popular in the Kangxi period and widely applied on porcelain of various sizes and shapes. Besides small bowls such as the present pair, examples of larger size can be cited, including a bottle vase of dragon design from the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. Gu-146889), and a floral decorated ewer in the collection of the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 3, London, 1986, col. pl. 2919.
此礬紅描金雲鳳紋盌在拍場上極少得見，但博物館藏例則可見北京故宮藏一相同作例，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系．雜彩釉．素三彩》，上海，2009年，圖版14。另一例同屬北京故宮藏，於1957年調撥至四川博物院，現屬四川博物院新館陶瓷館常設展品。
礬紅描金繪法在康煕一朝極為盛行，可見於不同大小及器形的作例。除現拍品般小巧精美盌例外，也見於大型瓶例，如北京故宮藏之清康熙礬紅描金雲龍直頸瓶（藏品編號：故146889），及一屬土耳其托卡比皇宮博物館藏之礬紅描金花卉紋執壺，圖見康蕊君，《Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul》，卷3，倫敦，1986年，彩色圖版2919。