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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 LARGE IRON-RED 明成化 青花礬紅彩海水雲龍紋盌
DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ 來源
BOWL 美國賓州 Regal 舊藏，建立於十九世紀晚期
CHENGHUA PERIOD (1465-1487) 香港蘇富比，2008 年 10 月 8 日，拍品 2551 號
The bowl is decorated with four iron-red five-clawed dragons
striding above underglaze-blue waves and interspersed with ruyi 此盌胎質細膩，釉面潔白瑩潤，繪畫精細，符合成化窯典型特點。青花
clouds below a diaper-pattern band at the mouth rim. The interior 礬紅彩技法，以鈷料完成局部紋飾，將特定部分留白，經高溫燒成後再
is decorated with a double-circle medallion containing a single 於留白處填繪紅彩紋飾，二次入窯低溫烘烤。工藝複雜，故傳世品甚少。
iron-red dragon surrounded by blue clouds. 清宮舊藏中有近乎相同的例子，見故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《青花釉
8Õ/”ÿ in. (22.7 cm.) diam., box 裏紅（中）》，香港，2000 年，圖版 222 號（圖一），院方亦將該例定
年成化。另有僅飾青花，留白處卻未填繪礬紅紋飾的例子，見國立故宮
PROVENANCE
The Regal Collection, formed from the late 19th century over two 博物院藏品，《成化瓷器特展圖錄》，台北，2003 年，圖版 1-6 號。
generations in Pennsylvannia, USA
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2551
HK$1,500,000-2,600,000 US$200,000-340,000
The present bowl is a very rare example combining the use of
underglaze blue and iron red from the Chenghua period. A nearly
identical bowl (21.6 cm. diam.) dated to the Chenghua period is in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of
the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II),
Hong Kong, 2000, p, 246, no. 222 (fig. 1). Another related bowl (21.4
cm. diam.) without the iron-red decoration is in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of
Ch’eng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, p. 120, no. 106. Compare also
with a smaller bowl of this pattern with a flared rim and a darker tone
of iron-red and blue excavated from Zhushan at Jingdezhen imperial
kiln site, dated to the Zhengtong-Tianshun period (1436-1464), included
in the exhibition catalogue Jingdezhen Porcelain Wares in Mid Fifteenth
Century China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, 2019, p, 179, no. 10.

fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品

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