明嘉靖 黃地綠彩壽桃紋盤 《大明嘉靖年製》款

the shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a flared rim, incised and decorated with green enamels against an egg-yolk yellow ground, the interior with a central medallion enclosing a stylised shou character formed from entwined branches bearing eight fruiting peaches in a garden with lingzhi, the exterior similarly decorated with shou characters amongst meandering branches of fruiting peaches, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign mark, Japanese wood box

繭山龍泉堂，東京

There is a 1.5cm crack to the rim at 8 O'clock. There are various areas on the rim where the glaze has thinned/pulled to leave the white exposed area. There is an area 2.3cm by 8mm of enamel re-touching to the foot at 10'Oclock (looking at the exterior). There is some scratches to the glaze to the interior.
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本品上作壽桃紋飾，樹枝幹呈壽字形，並繪八桃獻瑞，更添吉祥寓意。嘉靖皇帝崇信道教，故其年代各式工藝，均飾以相類主題。

台北國立故宮博物院藏一相近作例，展於《福壽康寧‧吉祥圖案瓷器特展圖錄》，台北，1995年，編號2；大衛德爵士故藏一作例，現存於英國大英博物館，圖見R.L. Hobson，《The Wares of the Ming Dynasty》，倫敦，1923年，圖版 39，圖 2。上海博物館現藏一例，松樹樹幹盤纏成壽字紋， 圖見陸明華，《明代官窰瓷器》，上海，2007年，圖版1-64。

同類紋飾，同見於嘉靖黃地綠彩盌例，圖載於L. Reidemeister，《Ming. Porzellane in Schwedischen Sammlungen》，柏林，1935年，圖版32a；五彩碟例，可參考Norton收藏，兩度售於倫敦蘇富比1963年11月5日，編號182及1974年4月1及2日，編號231；H.M. Knight收藏成對作例，售於香港蘇富比1980年5月 20日，編號72，後於倫敦蘇富比易手，2005年7月 13日，編號186。