金至元 鈞窰天藍釉紫斑雙耳連座瓶

skilfully modelled with a slender pear-shaped body sweeping up to a gently flaring neck and lipped mouth-rim, the neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles extending to the shoulder and subtly encircled by two raised fillets, all supported on a separately potted but integrally glazed baluster five-lobed stand with projecting flanges, each side pierced with a trefoil or quatrefoil floral motif, the vase and stand covered overall with a pale milky-blue glaze pooling at the recessed areas and thinning to a pale mushroom tone at the raised edges, further accentuated with liberal reddish-purple splashes transmuting to violet, the unglazed footring revealing the pale grey body burnt light brown in the firing

香港蘇富比1994年11月1日，編號7
J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約

The vase is in good overall good condition and the purple splashes are particularly vivid. There is a 0.8 cm chip to the foot, in addition to typical firing imperfections and minor surface scratches. The result of a thermoluminescence test is consistent with the dating of this lot (Chinese University of Hong Kong Laboratory, lab no. 1245, 26th November 1996, serial no. 01202).
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此瓶連鏤空底座，屬鈞瓷特有器形，紫斑灑彩顏色絢麗，由紅入紫漸變多姿，精美絕倫。見一相關瓶例，器形稍大，寬口外撇，飾雙魚耳，售於倫敦蘇富比1987年6月9日，編號170。另見一對較大花口瓶例，售於倫敦蘇富比1991年12月13日，編號139。亦可比一天藍釉瓶例，無紫斑，售於倫敦蘇富比2003年11月12日，編號68，並錄於《關氏所藏宋代陶瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1994年，編號48。

天藍釉紫斑鈞瓷灑彩筆觸具書法氣韻，逸然隨性，釉色華麗多變，甚為文人貴族所喜。柯玫瑰於其著作中曾指出，鈞窰紫斑乃是待天藍釉乾燥後以粗筆灑銅料而成，燒製時即與天藍釉相融成紫斑，見《Song Dynasty Ceramics》，倫敦，2004年，頁34。河南鈞窰雖以紫斑鈞瓷聞名，然此瓶器形優雅、紫斑發色艷麗，甚為珍罕。

此類紫斑鈞瓷瓶亦見無耳例，如一稍大例，為 Alexander 典藏，載於 Andre Leth，《Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art》，哥本哈根，1959年，圖版80，售於倫敦蘇富比1931年5月6日，編號139。另一例先後兩次售於紐約蘇富比，分別於1993年11月29日，編號235，及2011年3月23日，編號549。第三例，展於《Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Wares. Chun and Brown Glazes》，東方陶瓷學會，倫敦，1952年，編號21，後售於紐約蘇富比1986年6月4日，編號47。內蒙古元代遺址也出土一貼花瓶例，尺寸較大，刊於《中國陶瓷全集》，卷10，上海，2000年，圖版204，同書並載1972年北京出土一元代例，圖版205。