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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
龍行皇天 - 藝德堂珍藏御製陶瓷
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A FINE AND RARE WUCAI ‘DRAGON’ CUP 清雍正 五彩雙龍戲珠紋盃 雙圈三行六字楷書款
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 來源
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
香港蘇富比，1989 年 5 月 16 日，拍品 337 號
The finely potted cup is painted in bright enamels and underglaze 香港佳士得，2004 年 11 月 1 日，拍品 1103 號
blue with two sinuous four-clawed dragons in flight in pursuit of
flaming pearls amidst clouds. 此盃造型精緻，胎體細膩，釉彩柔和，迄今未見其他相同器形及紋飾的
3¬ in. (9.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box 例子。根據器形、繪畫、款識風格等方面進行比較，應為雍正官窯早期
作品。上海博物館藏有一件康熙鬥彩雲龍紋盌，載於《上海博物館藏康
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 337 熙瓷圖錄》，香港，1998 年，圖版 159 號（圖一），其深腹直口的造型
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 1103 與此盃相若，款識亦為三行款，筆法與本品上所見基本相同，應為同一
人所寫。兩件的繪畫風格皆為精細，但此盃的釉彩似更勝一籌，光澤度
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000 極佳，而且加入了雍正時期新研發出的松石綠釉，使得整體畫面更為生
動、更顯層次感。
No other Yongzheng cup of this design appears to be published. The
present cup was probably made early in the Yongzheng period, as it
compares closely to late Kangxi cups and bowls, such as a Kangxi-
marked doucai bowl painted with dragon medallions in the Shanghai
Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares, Hong Kong, 1998, no.
159 (fig. 1), which is also potted with deep rounded sides rising to
a straight rim, and inscribed with a mark in three vertical columns,
possibly by the same hand as the potter who inscribed the present cup
given the similarity in the modulation of each stroke and the spacing
between strokes. The manner in which the dragons and clouds are
painted is also similar, although the use of turquoise enamel was not
found on the Kangxi example.

(mark) fig. 1 Collection of the Shanghai Museum
圖一 上海博物館藏品

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