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A VERY RARE IRON-RED DECORATED 明嘉靖 礬紅彩雙龍捧壽紋水丞 礬紅雙圈六字楷書款
'DRAGON' WATER POT
此拍品或為孤品，目前未曾出版以紅彩繪相似紋飾之水丞。
JIAJING SIX CHARACTER MARK IN IRON RED WITHIN A DOUBLE 比較一嘉靖款器形相近之綠彩龍紋水丞，見John Ayers《Chinese
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) Ceramics in the Koger Collection》，倫敦，1985年，頁106-107，
The water pot is decorated with a pair of five-clawed dragons 圖 82。另一尺寸較大、同為嘉靖款綠彩龍紋之近似例，為北京
striding amid stylised cloud scrolls, the two separated by shou
medallions, all brightly outlined in a deeper tone of iron-red. 故宮博物院藏，載於《明代嘉靖隆慶萬曆御窯瓷器–景德鎮御
2¡ in. (5.8 cm.) high 窯遺址出土與故宮博物院藏傳世瓷器對比–上》，北京，2018年，
頁331，編號203（圖一）。
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000
The present water pot, with its elegantly incurving shoulder,
appears to be unique, with no other exact example decorated in
iron-red having been published. A closely related Jiajing-marked
water pot of similar form but decorated with green enamelled
dragons is illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Koger
Collection, London, 1985, p. 106-107, fig. 82. Another Jiajing
marked example, also decorated with dragons in green enamel, but
of a slightly larger size, is in the collection of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, and is illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reign of
Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 1, Beijing,
2018, p. 331, no. 203 (fig. 1).
fig. 1 Collection of the Palace (mark)
Museum, Beijing
It is very rare to find Ming imperial porcelain bearing iron-red
marks. The earliest use of such mark can be found on Xuande 圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品
wares, such as a copper-red decorated 'three fish' stem cup in
the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, which is
illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-
te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, no. 82.
Compare also a Zhengde wucai dish bearing an iron-red mark in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains
in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours - The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum, 1999, pl. 2.

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