拍品 3125
  • 3125

明嘉靖 青花團花「龍鳳呈祥」圖葫蘆瓶 《大明嘉靖年製》款

估價
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 HKD
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描述

  • 《大明嘉靖年製》款
with a swelling lower bulb supported on a slightly splayed foot, rising to a cinched waist and a slightly smaller upper bulb surmounted by a short tubular neck, each bulb freely painted with four medallions formed of ruyi clouds, enclosing either an ascending en face five-clawed dragon writhing, a descending male phoenix with serrated tail feathers, an ascending female phoenix with a curled tail or a swooping crane, divided by foliate sprays of ruyi surmounted by one of the 'Eight Treasures' (babao), all between a border of overlapping petals above a 'classic' scroll on the foot and pendent petal lappets below a lotus scroll around the neck, the waist encircled with detached lotus and foliate ground, the recessed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark

來源

紐約佳士得2000年9月21日,編號299

Condition

There is a slight lean in the vase to the upper bulb. There is a firing crack around the inner foot. There is a small 1 cm. polished area of the glaze inside the rim. There are some burst air bubble and a few gaps in the glaze around the body, some expected firing impurities, but overall the vase is in quite good condition.
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拍品資料及來源

此瓶宏碩,青花繪飾濃豔奪目,佈局精妙,展現嘉靖佳瓷特質。費城博物館存一近例,展於《Ming Blue-and-White》,1948年,編號110;另一例藏哥本哈根裝飾藝術博物館,錄於 Andre Leth,《Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen》,哥本哈根,1959年,圖版112;C.M. Woodbridge 舊存一例,售於倫敦蘇富比1951年5月8日由,編號45;第四例售於倫敦佳士得2001年6月21日,編號86;還有對瓶,售於紐約蘇富比1972年1月21日,編號196。

此類葫蘆瓶下部,多飾以吉祥圖紋,如瑞鹿、仙鶴、壽龜,環繪松樹桃枝,鶴及樹皆可作祥瑞文字之狀;紐約大都會藝術博物館有一例,錄於 Suzanne G. Valenstein,《A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics》,紐約,1975年,圖版166,書中作者指當時景德鎮御窰廠雖力求增產,以應付宮廷瓷器之大量需求,嘉靖瓷風仍甚富活力、無拘奔放(頁187)。