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A RARE MOULDED GOURD BOWL 清康熙 匏製團壽龍鳳紋盌 「康熙賞玩」款

KANGXI MOULDED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
(1662-1722) 來源:
香港蘇富比，1991年10月30-31日，拍品341號
The rounded sides are finely moulded on the exterior with four 瑪莉及莊智博舊藏，香港
shou-character roundels flanked by two confronting archaistic
dragons, alternating with phoenix emblems. The interior lacquered 《Scholarly Works of Art from the Mary and George Bloch
black, and the rounded foot is moulded on the recessed base with Collection》，香港蘇富比，2005年10月23日，拍品128號
four characters reading Kangxi shangwan, `for the amusement of the
Emperor Kangxi’. 展覽:
4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) diam., cloth box 藍理捷，紐約，《雅製–中國文人藝術》，2020年3月13-27日
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000 出版:
藍理捷，《雅製–中國文人藝術》，紐約，2020年，編號26
P R O V E NAN C E :
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30-31 October 1991, lot 341
Mary and George Bloch Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Scholarly Works of Art from the Mary and 清代製匏工藝頗受皇家重視，康熙年間，在宮廷督造下，葫蘆造型藝術更
George Bloch Collection, 23 October 2005, lot 128 是蓬勃發展，工藝精巧繁複，並因歷經了康乾兩朝而達到了興盛，但傳世稀
少。康熙匏製器形近似例，可參考一六瓣盌及一壽字紋盌，兩例與本拍品相
E X H I B I T ED : 同，內皆髹黑漆，充分展現匏器與髹漆兩工藝之高度結合，載於王世襄《說
J. J. Lally & Co. Oriental Art, New York, Elegantly Made: Art for the 葫蘆》，香港，1993年，頁73，圖4及5；另一款識相同之近似例，可參見同出
Chinese Literati, 13 - 27 March 2020 版所著之匏製旋紋碟一對，頁185，圖版6。市場上亦有近似例，一Joseph W.
Stilwell將軍舊藏，「康熙賞玩」款匏製蓮托桃紋盌，於2018年3月22-23日於
L I T E R AT U R E : 紐約佳士得賣出，拍品971號。
J. J. Lally & Co. Oriental Art, Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese
Literati, New York, 2020, no. 26

The moulded mark on the base reading 'for the appreciation of the
Emperor Kangxi’ is characteristic of the bowls and dishes made of natural
gourds during the Kangxi reign. The growing of decorative gourd vessels
was a particular interest of the Emperor Kangxi. Indeed, his grandson, the
Emperor Qianlong, wrote a poem in praise of a gourd bowl grown by the
Emperor Kangxi himself and bearing on its base an inscription reading
'Made by the Kangxi Emperor'. The poem describes how the Kangxi
emperor grew gourds in an area of the special experimental plots he had
set aside in the Imperial West Garden for the cultivation of improved
strains of rice.
Several moulded gourd vessels with the same moulded mark as the
present lot are illustrated by Wang Shixiang, The Charms of the Gourd,
Hong Kong, 1993: a bowl with petal-moulded sides and a bowl moulded
with shou medallions, both with black lacquer interior painted with gold
decoration bearing the same Kangxi four-character mark, p. 73, figs. 4
and 5, and a pair of plain dishes with black lacquer interiors, p. 185, pl. 6.
Additionally, compare to a similarly moulded gourd bowl bearing the same
mark from the family collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883-1946),
sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot 971.

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