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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 VERY RARE EARLY-MING BLUE AND 明宣德 青花菱邊雲龍紋葵式盌 雙圈六字楷書款
WHITE LOBED BOWL 來源
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A 遠東家族舊藏
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The deep bowl is finely potted with ten bracket-shaped lobes 香港佳士得，2000 年 10 月 31 日，拍品 856 號
standing on a correspondingly shaped foot ring. The exterior 永樂、宣德時期，景德鎮御器厰曾燒造一批極其珍罕的葵式器皿，此盌
is painted on each panel in bright blue tones with characteristic 即屬其一。此盌紋飾罕見，器形、紋飾相同者似僅見其他二例，且尺寸
‘heaping and piling’ effect, with a shaped cartouche alternately 皆較小，一為趙從衍舊藏，1986 年 11 月 18 日於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品
enclosing an ascending or descending dragon amidst clouds, all 40 號（17.9 公分）；另一為上海博物館藏品（18.4 公分），見汪慶正著《青
between double-lines at the rim and foot. The interior is painted 花釉裏紅》，上海，1987年，圖版133號。宣德葵式盌亦有魚藻紋的例子，
with a medallion containing a single dragon. 如國立故宮博物院所藏一件（18.4 公分），載於《明代宣德官窯菁華特
8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam., box 展圖錄》，台北，1998 年，圖版 140（圖一）；以及 2017 年 4 月 5 日香
港蘇富比拍賣一件（23 公分），拍品 101 號。
PROVENANCE
A Far Eastern Family Collection 永宣葵式器尚有高足盌及筆洗之器形。高足盌如國立故宮博物院藏品，
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 856 見前揭書圖版 111-114 號，分飾以團龍紋、團花紋、菱邊雙鳳紋、及菱
HK$1,000,000-2,000,000 US$130,000-260,000 邊雲龍紋（圖二）；筆洗則見圖版 182-183 號，分飾以團龍鳳紋及菱邊
雲龍紋。
The present bowl belongs to a rare group of lobed vessels from the
Yongle and Xuande periods. Only two other almost identical bowls
but both smaller in size appear to have been published: the first (17.9
cm. diam.) from the T. Y. Chao Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 40; the other (18.4 cm. diam.) in the
Shanghai Museum, is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue
and Red, Shanghai, 1987, no. 133. Compare also with two other lobed
bowls painted with fish among aquatic plants, one smaller (18.4 cm.
diam.) is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Special
Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty,
Taipei, 1998, pp. 334-335, no. 140 (fig. 1); the other larger (23 cm.) was
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2017, lot 101.
The unusual lobed form is also found on stem bowls and washers of
this period, such as the examples in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, see ibid., for stem bowls with dragon roundels (no. 111), floral
roundels (no. 112), cartouches containing pairs of phoenix (no. 113), and
cartouches containing a single dragon identical to the present design
(no. 114) (fig. 2); and for washers with dragon and phoenix roundels (no.
182), and cartouches with dragons (no. 183).
fig. 1 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
圖一 國立故宮博物館藏品

(mark) fig. 2 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
圖二 國立故宮博物館藏品

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