A fine blue and white 'Queen Mother of the West' bowl, Qing dynasty, Kangxi / Yongzheng period | 清康熙 / 雍正 青花「西王母乘鶴」圖盌 《大明宣德年製》仿款

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 733.

Offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2519.

來源：

香港蘇富比1981年5月20日，編號733.

上拍於香港蘇富比2008年4月11日，編號2519

The Leshantang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, pl. 27.

出版：

《樂山堂藏瓷》，台北，2005年，圖版27

Ming imperial porcelains of the Xuande period represent a peak of quality, beauty and inventiveness in the history of Chinese ceramics, and later emperors referred back to wares of this period as seen in this fine piece. The Daoist image of the Queen Mother of the West (Xi Wang Mu) riding a crane above a pavilion copies exactly the original, including the six character reign mark of Xuande on the base.   

An eighteenth century bowl of this form and decoration, from the Brankston and Riesco collections was sold in our London rooms, 23^rd June 1970, lot 112. Compare also a related Qing bowl with a Xuande reign mark, but decorated with a different figural subject, included in the exhibition Special Exhibition of Hsuan Te Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1980, cat. no. 34, together with a Xuande period prototype, cat. no. 33.

For the fifteenth century origin of this decorative motif see a Xuande bowl from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 148; and one from the E. T. Chow collection, sold in these rooms, 25^th November 1980, lot 6.

康熙、雍正和乾隆三朝內、對明初永宣和中期成化御瓷十分器重、時有仿燒。這盌是全面仿照宣德的原器來繪畫、以至款字也一併模仿。宣德原器是屬於一系列侈口弧壁的闊口盌、皆以通景鋪排庭閣花木和仕女的題材。

這類十八世紀初的仿作不甚多見、但一隻來自 Brankston and Riesco 收藏的同形和圖飾的青花盌就曾於倫敦蘇富比賣出（1970年6月23日、編號112）。而台北國立故宮博物院亦於1980年的《明宣德瓷器特展》上展出同樣帶《大明宣德年製》款的清初仿品（ 編號

34）、唯是所飾構圖不同（原器即《明代宣德官窯華特展圖錄》內編號151）。

若要参考原器作仔細比較、可參閱《明代宣德官窯華特展圖錄》內編號148的青花「吹簫引鳳仕女」圖盌、或原屬仇焱之收藏、於1980年11月25日香港蘇富比拍賣售出（編號6）的同類青花圖盌。