清雍正 黃地綠釉刻祥雲團龍紋盌 《大清雍正年製》款

with deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a gently flared rim, the exterior finely incised in the biscuit and enamelled in translucent green with four medallions alternating with pairs of ruyi cloud scrolls, each medallion formed from a ferocious five-clawed dragon coiled around flame wisps in pursuit of a flaming pearl, all above a band of lotus lappets, the interior similarly decorated with a central medallion enclosing a five-clawed scaly dragon reaching out to a flaming pearl, all reserved against a brilliant opaque egg-yolk yellow ground, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

倫敦蘇富比1967年11月14日，編號124 (£400)
Bluett & Sons Ltd，倫敦，1967年 (£400)
羅傑琵金頓(1928-69年)收藏，自1967年 (£400)

The bowl is in overall very good condition except for a 'Y'-shaped hairline crack from the rim on the outside measuring 0.3 cm (at around 3 o'clock position seen from the interior roundel) and on the outside 0.7 cm on one end and 0.2 cm on the other.
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此類雍正年款盌，細刻團龍與如意雲頭，肇始於康熙年間，見一清宮藏例，載《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系·雜釉彩·素三彩》，上海，2009年，圖版87。此樣式至乾隆時亦頗為盛行，見一對乾隆款盌例，展於《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，卷2，圖錄編號110。

一相似例，展於《清瓷薈錦 : 香港藝術館藏清代陶瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1984年，圖錄編號54；H.P. Hebblethwaite 亦藏一例，售於倫敦蘇富比1974年12月2/3日，編號488，後再售於1979年5月22日，編號217。B.C. Tattenhall 收藏中亦見一例，展於《Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty》，東方陶瓷學會，倫敦，1951年，圖錄編號75，後售於倫敦蘇富比1989年12月12日，編號412。