南宋 吉州窰鷓鴣釉梅瓶

robustly potted with a tapering body rising to broad round shoulders, sweeping up to a short neck with rolled lip, the body liberally decorated with variegated cream-coloured splashes against a dark brown ground mimicking partridge feathers, save for the knife-pared footring unglazed revealing the buff body, the base covered in a dark brown matte glaze

鴻禧美術館收藏，台北

史彬士（編纂），《中國歷代陶瓷選集》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1990年，編號54
《中國古瓷窰大系：中國吉州窰》，北京，2013年，頁313，圖12

A C'shaped section of approximately half of the rim has been broken and restuck.5.2cm. There is a horizontal misfiring patch measuring 5.3cm and 0.5cm at its widest.
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此梅瓶器形端秀，釉色斑駁，堪稱江西吉州窰傳世精品。乳白及赤褐色在棕黑釉上蜿蜒流動，是為吉州窰特色，但只有少數釉色斑紋如此流麗精巧，妙趣天成。且梅瓶大器甚少，此瓶比例精妙，器形流暢，屬罕見珍品。此釉色又稱鷓鴣斑，若琥珀色斑紋較多，則稱玳瑁斑，乃吉州窰匠精心創製，工藝複雜。瓷匠須於器表均勻施釉，並隨意摻灑含高釉灰量之斑點，上品色斑渾然天成，有如鷓鴣翎羽或玳瑁龜殼。此類紋飾意仿自然，切合南宋文人意趣。

吉州窰瓷雖以盌類為大宗，但南宋末年至元朝年間亦偶見少量立件。其時梅瓶之器形比例已稍遜前代，可參考韓國新安沉船發掘所得一例；此船載有大量中國瓷器，在駛往日本途中沉沒，時約元朝至治三年，參閱《新安船》，卷2，韓國國立海洋博物館，木浦，2006年，頁289，圖版08，及《大元帆影：韓國新安沉船出水文物精華》，浙江省博物館，杭州，2012年，頁46。

比較 Samuel T. Peters 夫人藏梅瓶，尺寸稍小，斑紋與本品相似，現存紐約大都會藝術博物館，展於《Treasures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art》，中國館，紐約，1979年，編號36。另一件梅瓶類例，頸短直，斑紋更豐富潑麗，乃清宮舊藏，現存北京，錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，1996年，圖版216。紐約蘇富比曾售一較小瓶例，Janos Szekeres 伉儷舊藏，1983年12月7日，編號210，展於《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics》，哈佛大學藝術館，劍橋，1995年，編號91。還有一例，售於紐約蘇富比2016年3月16日，編號262。