A very rare wucai 'dragon' tea caddy and cover, Mark and period of Wanli | 明萬曆 五彩龍紋蓋罐 《大明萬曆年製》款
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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 5,000,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
potted with a compressed globular body rising to an incurved rim, the body vividly painted in intense tones of the wucai palette with four five-clawed dragons, two red and two green, separated by four lingzhi blooms, all between bands of leaves at the rim and foot, above another band of scrolls, the cover with a flat top painted with a dragon in underglaze blue and iron red, enclosed by a lingzhi border and further scrollwork bordering the rim, the base inscribed with an underglaze blue six-character reign mark within a double circle, Japanese double wood box
w. 11.3 cm
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.
Watanabe & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.
Bi no bi [The beauty of beauty], Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, 1958.
Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 77.
Shika Meisai: Ise Korekushon no Meito / Imperial Colors: Peerless Chinese Porcelains from the Ise Collection, Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 2015, cat. no. 31.
Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 54.
Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 66.
Chugoku Toji. Ise Korekushon / Chinese Ceramics. The Ise Collection, Tokyo, 2012, pp. 102-103.
Nagomi [A monthly magazine by Tankosha], Tankosha, Tokyo, May 2018, cover and p. 19.
The specially designed flat cover, featuring a wider rim and a straight inner ring that fits into the jar's rim, along with the thick clay body, effectively protects the tea leaves from moisture in the air. Tea caddies with such unique design became popular during the Wanli period. See a related set of wucai jar and cover decorated with two dragons in the Baur collection, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 100. Two further examples are preserved in the Palace Museum, Taipei, the first with a similar dragon motif, gu ci 005954, and the other painted with flowers, fruits, and birds on the jar, gu ci 005958, exhibited in Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds: the Culture, Practice, and Art of Tea, Taipei, 2002, cat. no. 80.
來源
繭山龍泉堂，東京
渡邊三方堂，東京
展覽
《第一回 美の美》，三越，東京，1958年
《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，編號77
《瓷華明彩―イセコレクションの名陶》，五島美術館，東京，2015年，編號31
《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》，吉美博物館，巴黎，2017年，編號54
《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66
出版
《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》，東京，2012年，頁102至103
《なごみ》，淡交社，東京，2018年5月，封面及頁19
此件茶葉罐配備精心設計的平頂蓋，寬沿與直口內圈的獨特結構，結合厚實胎體，能有效隔絕空氣濕氣對茶葉的侵襲。此類特殊形制的茶葉罐盛行於萬曆時期。同類五彩盖罐鮑氏東方藝術館藏一例，載於John Ayers《Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection》， 卷1， 日內瓦， 1999年， 圖版100。另見两例藏於台北故宮博物院，其一紋飾龍紋（故瓷005954），其二則罐身繪以花鳥果品（故瓷005958），展覽並收錄於《也可以清心—茶器・茶事・茶畫》， 台北， 2002年，編號80。
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