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PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
巴特勒家族珍藏
2911
A VERY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 明天啟 青花通景山水圖大盌
BOWL
款識：大明成化年製
TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)
The heavily potted bowl is decorated on the exterior with various 來源:
scenes depicting figures on rafts, figures traveling on horse back and 巴特勒家族珍藏，英國
by foot, figures playing chess, a fortress and a pagoda with boats in
the foreground. The mouth rim is decorated with six hexafoil panels 展覽:
enclosing rabbits and alternating with ruyi-heads, all reserved on a 上海博物館，《上海博物館與英國巴特勒家族所藏十七世紀景
diaper ground. The interior is similarly decorated on the centre with
a riverscape scene including figures, pavilions, fortress and pagoda. 德鎮瓷器》，2005年12月1日至2006年2月28日
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua
mark. 出版:
17¡ in. (44.2 cm.) diam. 巴特勒爵士與汪慶正合著，《上海博物館與英國巴特勒家族所
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000 藏十七世紀景德鎮瓷器》，2006年，頁68-69，編號4
甘淑美及巴芙蓮合著，《鯉躍龍門–邁克爾‧巴特勒爵士珍藏十
七世紀中國瓷》，倫敦，2021年，頁87，圖版III.1.34
P R O V E NAN C E :
The Butler Family Collection, UK
明天啟青花器略分兩類，一以山水為主題，另以人物花卉為題材；此盌屬前
者，器形碩大，構圖簡練，青花色澤亮麗淡雅，屬天啟時期難得之佳作。紋飾
E X H I B I T ED :
Shanghai Museum, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the 通景山水所包括之城牆或為萬里長城，口沿下方一錦地紋，內繪如意雲開光
Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty’s Enchantment, 兔紋。錦地兔紋為天啟期間常見圖案紋飾，相似紋飾可見一天啟仿成化款之
1 December 2005- 28 February 2006 青花兔紋花口盤，為清宮舊藏，見北京故宮網站。
L I T E R AT U R E :
Sir M. Butler and Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen
Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty’s
Enchantment, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 68-69, no. 4
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael
Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London,
2021, p. 87, pl. III.1.34
Bowls of this size with finely painted landscape scene from Tianqi period
are very rare. The design is brilliantly executed in cobalt blue, depicting a
city wall, possibly the Great Wall, with pagodas and flags amidst clouds.
The border at the rim is with bracket-lobed cartouches enclosing rabbit
motif and reserved on a diaper ground; such decoration was popular during
the Tianqi period. See a blue and white foliate dish from the Tianqi period
with similar rabbit motif against a diaper ground in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, as shown on the museum's website.

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