View full screen - View 1 of Lot 5054. A very rare yellow-ground underglaze-blue and iron-red 'peony' double gourd vase, Mark and period of Jiajing | 明嘉靖 黃地青花加礬紅彩纏枝牡丹紋葫蘆瓶  《大明嘉靖年製》款.

A very rare yellow-ground underglaze-blue and iron-red 'peony' double gourd vase, Mark and period of Jiajing | 明嘉靖 黃地青花加礬紅彩纏枝牡丹紋葫蘆瓶  《大明嘉靖年製》款

Auction Closed

September 9, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

1,600,000 - 3,200,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

the compressed globular lower body rising through a waisted centre to the pear-shaped tapering upper bulb, painted with bold iron-red peony blossoms borne on underglaze-blue foliate scrolls, interrupted at the waist with florets above a pendent lappet border, all against a bright yellow ground, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle in underglaze blue,

21 cm

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

Eskenazi Ltd, London.

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo, acquired at the Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, London, in 1996-97.

Chugoku Toji Bi wo Mirukokoro [Chinese Ceramics, Enlightening through Beauty], Sen-oku Hakuko Kan, Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 57.

Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 66.

Shika Meisai: Ise Korekushon no Meito / Imperial Colors: Peerless Chinese Porcelains from the Ise Collection, Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 2015, cat. no. 20.

Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 44.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 57.

Toujikyokai Kaiin Gentei Dainikai Tokubetsu Kanshokai Ise Collection Chugoku Toji To, Hokuso, Nanso, Gen, Min, Shin [Special exhibition for the members of The Japan Ceramic Society, Part 2, Chinese porcelains from Ise Collection; Tang, Northern Song, Southern Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing], Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 2019, unillustrated.

Giuseppe Eskenazi and Hajni Elias, A Dealer's Hand - The Chinese Art World through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, pl. 383.

Chugoku Toji. Ise Korekushon / Chinese Ceramics. The Ise Collection, Tokyo, 2012, pp. 84-85.

Geijutsu Shincho [A Monthly Japanese Art Journal], May 2012 (Supplement), figs 7-8.

Tosetsu / A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society, vol. 803, March 2020, pl. 6. 

Carried by Daoist immortals, double-gourds were believed to contain elixirs of immortality. As such, vases in this form are closely associated with Daoism and reflect the Jiajing Emperor's devotion to the religion. See a similar example from the Ataka Collection, now at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in The Beauty of Asian Ceramics, Osaka, 2014, pl. 58, and a pair in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls 9:88 and 9:89. For a variation of this vase decorated with lotus blossoms and without the iron-red enamels, see one preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 91.1.379, and one sold in our New York rooms, from the collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton, 21st September 2021, lot 83.


來源

史蒂芬・瓊肯三世(1978年逝)收藏

埃斯卡納齊,倫敦

繭山龍泉堂,東京,1996-97年購於倫敦格羅夫納古董博覽會


展覽

《中国陶磁 美を鑑るこころ》,泉屋博古館分館,東京,2006年,編號57

《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66

《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20

《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》,吉美博物館,巴黎,2017年,編號44

《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57

《陶磁協会会員限定 第二回特別観賞会 イセコレクション 中国陶磁 唐、北宋、南宋、元、明、清》,日本陶磁協会,東京,2019年,沒載圖


出版

朱塞佩‧埃斯卡納齊及Hajni Elias,《A Dealer’s Hand. The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi》,埃斯卡納齊,倫敦,2012年,圖版383

《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》,東京,2012年,頁84至85

《芸術新潮》,2012年5月別冊,圖7至8

《陶説》,803期,2020年3月,圖版6


葫蘆自古為道教聖物,相傳仙人攜此盛裝長生仙丹。本品作两節葫蘆式,恰映嘉靖皇帝篤信道教之史實。可資比較者包括:大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館安宅舊藏一例,見《東洋陶磁の美》,大阪,2014年,圖版58;大英博物館藏一對,見霍吉淑,《Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》(大英博物館藏元代晚期及明代陶瓷圖錄),倫敦,2001年,圖版9:88-9:89。另見紋飾變體兩例:紐約大都會藝術博物館藏纏枝蓮紋無礬紅彩者(館藏編號91.1.379);2021年9月21日紐約蘇富比釋出布魯斯·戴頓伉儷舊藏一例,編號83號。