清康熙 青花高仕仙閣圖盌 《大清康熙年製》款

finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous scene depicting three scholars conversing in a rural landscape near a pine tree and accompanied by two attendants carrying a scroll, the setting carefully picked out with large plantain leaves issuing from behind jagged rockwork and bamboo shoots, a pavilion depicted emerging amidst the cloud scrolls, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing verdant vegetation and rockwork, all painted in soft washes of blue within thin outlines, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle

The overall condition is excellent with only some minor surface wear to the interior and several characteristic pinholes to the glaze.
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康熙四十四年（1705年），朝廷遣派江西巡撫郎廷極到景德鎮管理窰務，並仿製明朝瓷器，特別是明宣德及成化瓷器。此器上紋飾淡雅，人物樓閣，仙氣縈繞，極有可能是在這個時期燒製的作品。

此盌上的紋飾不為多見，常見者飾仕女童子。一例為故宮博物院所藏，繪庭院仕女圖，底書康熙款，見陳潤民，《清順治康熙朝青花瓷》，北京，2005年，圖版127。一較小的同類盌，繪一仕女於庭院樓閣中，曾展於《The Emperor's Broken China: Reconstructing Chenghua Porcelain》，倫敦蘇富比，1995年，編號58。

此類成化盌，形取宣德御瓷，至清朝繼續仿製。一例繪西王母駕鶴圖，底書宣德偽款，售香港蘇富比1981年5月20日，編號733，並著錄於《樂山堂藏瓷》，台北，2005年，圖版27。台北故宮博物院藏十五世紀例，見《明代宣德官窰精華特展圖錄》，台北，1998年，編號148。

盌外壁繪三高仕與內心的松、竹、梅互相呼應。紋飾中的高仕讓人想起宋詩人林逋，被後人稱為和靖先生，北宋隱逸詩人，帶著兩位學生，如歲寒三友傲骨迎風之風；也象徵冰清玉潔，長青不老的君子之道。