元十四世紀初 白釉蓮瓣盤

胎體厚重，呈八瓣蓮形，盤淺，口沿略撇，盤心隨形微凹，小足厚壁。除器底足沿外，通體厚施白釉，色澤溫潤，聚釉處泛青、薄釉處微黃。

Richard Bryant Hobart（卒於1968年）收藏
紐約蘇富比1969年5月23日，編號104
倫敦蘇富比1975年12月9日，編號120
英國鐵路基金會收藏
倫敦蘇富比1989年12月12日，編號89
Bluett & Sons，倫敦（1991年）

多切斯特國際陶瓷博覽會，倫敦，1986年6月

Hin-cheung Lovell，〈Sung and Yuan Monochrome Lacquers in the Freer Gallery〉，《Ars Orientalis》，1973年，卷9，圖版14，圖29
康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷2，編號631

There are some original firing cracks, including a couple to the central well and a few short ones to the rim visible on p. 61, as well as a few others to the rim on the reverse, located at approx. 2 o'clock (with minor losses), 4 o'clock, and 11 o'clock in the photo on p. 63, with associated discolouration to a grey colour. The lobed rim has a small flake of 0.4 x 1.7 cm (approx. 12 o'clock on p. 61), probably resulted from a couple of fine original firing cracks, adjecent to a further horizontal hairline of 2.7 cm with minor losses. The unglazed foot also has a couple of fine firing cracks to the joint of the footring and the base. The dish also has some typical burst air bubbles, iron spots, glaze gaps and minor wear to the rim.
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此白釉蓮瓣盤，秀逸別致，應屬景德鎮最早期之單色釉。十四世紀初，景德鎮已開始燒作青花瓷，同時又特意製如斯瓷器，無紋素白。此拍品似乎全為模製，即以內外兩模配合，使瓷胎成形，是以其胎質堅密。其規整的蓮瓣式口，以及器心微陷，皆與當時的素色漆器相仿。器形相近之元代漆盤，製作時亦須以模具把麻或木質胎體成形。

據錄，相似之蓮花式盤例僅三，分別藏於大英博物館和上海博物館，或以同一組模具製成。其中倫敦大英博物館藏之白釉盤，可與本品成對，圖見康蕊君，〈A New Look at the Development of Chinese Ceramics〉，《Orientations》，1992年11月， 頁69， 圖5，及 Jessica Harrison-Hall，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦， 2001年，編號1:14。

上海博物館所藏盤例，器心繪青花蓮塘小景，並環飾雜寶雲紋，外壁留白，近展於該館《幽藍神采：元代青花瓷器特展》，上海，2012年，編號28（圖一），同書頁114，也有提及第三件上海博物館藏白釉蓮瓣盤例。

有一朱漆蓮瓣盤，器心微陷部份較大，盤底足內相應下凹，售於香港蘇富比2004年10月31日，編號206（圖二）；另一件類似漆盤，屬 Sedgwick 舊藏，售於倫敦蘇室比1968年10月15日，編號56。

學者曾就大英博物館所藏盤，與數件年代較早之蓮瓣式漆盤相比較，錄於 Monika Kopplin 編，《The Monochrome Principle》，慕尼克，2008年，圖版18-20、22，然漆例器心微凹處皆呈圓形，而非瓷作所見之花形。