元十四世紀 龍泉青瓷鏤雕「福壽」紋獸耳銜環玉壺春套瓶

作玉壺春套瓶式，器身扁圓，圈足外撇，海棠式撇口，頸有二獸首銜環耳。瓶腹兩面中心鏤雕花形開光，分別綴「福」與「壽」字，伴以四季花卉，其中牡丹茶花自山岩而出，石榴菊花從水波而發。頸飾蕉葉紋，足壁頸底則作回紋。通體施青釉，釉薄處露胎白。圈足底露胎，色磚紅。

康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷4，編號1605

Part of the neck and the animal masks of the handles have been broken across along the luting line and restored. A section of the tubular body inside the vase is broken and missing. The unglazed footring has some chips and flakes, with the largest one measuring approx. 1.3 cm. The countersunk base has a short fine firing crack of 0.8 cm. The vase also has some fine body lines under the glaze and characteristic glaze gaps.
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有元一代，藝匠旨在通過精細之造型紋飾，使所燒單色釉更富趣味。此瓶，呈套式，外壁鏤空，燒製艱鉅。蒙元以後，此工藝須至乾隆時期始再度復興，用於裝飾青釉瓷器。

可比一例，紋樣相類，曾售於紐約蘇富比2002年3月20日，編號121。同類瓷瓶常見雕刻工藝，然鏤空者甚少，比較一對 Eumorfopoulos 藏瓶，錄於 R.L. Hobson，《The George Eumorfopolous collection of Chinese, Corea, Persian Pottery and Porcelain》，倫敦，1925-8年，卷2，圖版XLII，編號B159；另有一例，屬日內瓦鮑氏雅藏，錄於 John Ayers，《The Baur Collection Geneva: Chinese Ceramics》，日內瓦，1968-74年，卷1，圖版A114。

元代以降，此類紋飾風格承襲有序，然不見鏤雕工藝。兩件相類瓶例，分別出土於龍泉窰大窰楓洞岩窰址明早期及中期地層，載於《龍泉大窰楓洞岩窰址出土瓷器》，北京，2009年，圖版112、172。