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A rare blue and white 'lotus' dish, Mark and period of Xuande | 明宣德 青花番蓮紋盤 《大明宣德年製》款

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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 4,000,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

with shallow rounded sides rising to a flared rim, the interior painted with a central roundel enclosing a lotus spray, surrounded by a continuous lotus scroll encircling the cavetto similarly rendered on the exterior, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle, Japanese wood box

17.4 cm

Probably collection of George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939), coll. no. C.113.

Probably Sotheby's London, 29th May 1940, lot 232 (one of a pair, unillustrated).

Collection of Mrs Alfred Clark, coll. no. 828 (one of a pair).

Spink & Son, Ltd, London, 1974 (one of a pair).

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th October 2001, lot 532.

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo, inv. no. 5446.

Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1974, cat. no. 20.

Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, back cover and cat. no. 51.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 47.

Tosetsu / A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society, vol. 598, January 2003 (Mayuyama & Co., Ltd ad).

Chugoku Toji. Ise Korekushon / Chinese Ceramics. The Ise Collection, Tokyo, 2012, p. 64.

Painted with stylised lotus blooms and curled leaves in vibrant cobalt blue, this charming dish belongs to a rare group of Xuande porcelain. The fancifully rendered lotus, similar to those seen on early Ming Buddhist sculptures, signifies untainted purity. For comparables, see a dish in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang Ming chu qinghua ci [Early Ming blue and white porcelain in the Palace Museum], vol. 2, Beijing, 2002, pl. 129; another in the Taipei Palace Museum, illustrated in Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 176; another, probably the pair to the current dish, formerly in the collections of George Eumorfopoulous and Mrs Alfred Clark, illustrated in Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1974, cat. no. 21, and a dish from the collection of Joseph Lau, sold in these rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 1. 


來源

或喬治・尤莫弗普勒斯(1863-1939年)收藏,收藏編號C.113

或倫敦蘇富比1940年5月29日,編號232(一對之一,沒載圖)

艾弗瑞・克拉克夫人,收藏編號828(一對之一)

斯賓克,倫敦,1974年(一對之一)

香港蘇富比2001年10月29日,編號532

繭山龍泉堂,東京,編號5446


展覽

《Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark》,Spink & Son Ltd,倫敦,1974年,編號20

《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,封底及編號51

《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47


出版

《陶説》,598期,2003年1月(繭山龍泉堂廣告)

《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》,東京,2012年,頁64


此盤青花濃艷,妙繪番蓮,伴飾卷葉,小巧之餘,雅緻悅目。蓮花瓣片曲捲、枝葉華麗,與明初佛教造像上所飾蓮紋相近,應有純潔無瑕之寄語。 宣德御瓷中,此盤式甚罕,但仍有數例可資比較。如北京故宮博物院藏一例,見《故宮博物院藏明初青花瓷》,卷2,北京,2002年,圖版129;台北故宮博物院也有一例,見《明代宣德官窰精華特展圖錄》,台北,1998年,編號176。另見尤莫弗普勒斯及克拉克夫人遞藏對盤,而此盤或為此對其一,收入《Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark》,斯賓克,倫敦,1974年,編號21。劉鑾雄收藏一例,2022年4月29日於香港蘇富比拍出,編號1。

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