明萬曆 綠地黃彩劃花八吉祥「海水游龍」紋罐 《大明萬曆年製》款

短直頸，圓肩，弧腹下歛。外壁劃花，飾以綠地黃彩。腹間綴四花式開光，內有五爪逐珠雲龍，騰躍山石海濤之上，間隙飾結帶八吉祥。肩上有蓮瓣紋，近足處則以折枝花卉紋飾之。器裏留白，底署白地青花六字雙圈楷款。

香港蘇富比1996年4月30日，編號360
Eskenazi Ltd，倫敦

康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷4，編號1692

There is a star crack inside the vase (approx. 4.5 cm) and two faint hairline cracks at the rim (one approx. 2.5 cm, the second pronged at the bottom of the rim with one branch extending on approx. 6.3 cm. above the shoulder). Some minor grits and expected firing flaws to the glaze and glaze crakles to the interior and under the base.
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此類色調鮮明之瓷罐，私人收藏甚罕，各大型博物館則存數器，見於東京國立博物館橫河氏舊藏，紐約大都會藝術博物館，及倫敦大英博物館Oppenheim舊藏等，皆錄於《Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections》，東京、紐約、三藩市，1980-82 年，卷1，編號124；卷5，編號206；卷11，編號96。其他例子著錄於耿寶昌，《明清瓷器鑑定》，香港，1993年，彩圖73；John Ayers，《The Baur Collection Geneva: Chinese Ceramics》，日內瓦，1968-74年，卷2，編號A208；《中国陶磁：出光美術館藏品圖錄》，東京，1987年，編號766。另二罐，構圖紋飾與此類同，然工藝略顯粗獷，為Eumorfopoulos舊藏，現屬大英博物館藏品，錄於Jessica Harrison-Hall，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，圖版11:174及175。

北京故宮博物院另有一罕見帶蓋作例，錄於葉佩蘭，《美哉陶瓷7．五彩明瓷》，台北，1996年，圖版160。