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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 RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH 明正德 青花穿花龍紋盤 雙圈四字楷書款
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521) 來源
The dish is finely painted in vibrant inky-blue tones in the centre Hong Rui Tang 珍藏，香港
with a leaping dragon amongst a dense lotus meander, the well 倫敦蘇富比，1995 年 12 月 5 日，拍品 395 號
with two further striding dragons amid lotus scrolls. The underside 青花穿花龍紋源自永樂官瓷，以正德朝最為流行，寓江山萬代、延綿不
is painted with a similar design above a band of ruyi heads. The 斷之意。至清代仍為御賞珍品之一，例如雍正六年（1728）御製《古玩
base is covered with a transparent glaze and inscribed with the 圖》中亦列出近似的青花盤。近似例見於全球公私珍藏，包括北京故宮
reign mark. 博物院、上海博物館、天民樓、東京繭山龍泉堂等。另有玫茵堂舊藏一
8¡ in. (21.2 cm.) diam., box
例，2012 年 10 月 9 日於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品 19 號，及英國里埃斯科
PROVENANCE 舊藏較大一件（24 公分），2013 年 11 月 27 日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍
Hong Rui Tang Collection, Hong Kong 品 3116 號（成交價：港元 3,880,000）（圖一 )。穿花龍紋盤應有二款構
A Private Collection of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, sold 圖，一款如本盤，內壁行龍位於盤心龍紋左右；另一款為行龍位於盤心
at Sotheby’s London, 5 December 1995, lot 395 龍紋上下，如大英博物館獲贈艾惕思舊藏，載於 2001 年倫敦出版 Jessica
Harrison-Hall 著《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，編號 8:16。
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000
The design of five-clawed dragons amidst dense lotus scrolls is one
of the most prevalent motifs seen on Zhengde porcelain. Its imperial
provenance is further substantiated by the inclusion of a dish of this
design on the sixth scroll of the imperial collection of the Yongzheng
Emperor, the Guwan Tu, Scroll of Antiquities, dated to the sixth year of
his reign (1728), from the Percival David Collection and now housed in
the British Museum.
Zhengde-marked dishes of this design are found in museums and
private collections worldwide, such as one (19.8 cm.) in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red
(II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 68, no. 63; one (19.6 cm.) in the Shanghai
Museum, published in Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red,
Hong Kong, 1987, no. 154; one (20.2 cm.) in the Tianminlou Collection,
illustrated in Blue & White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 56; one (19.9 cm.) illustrated
in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 807; one (19.5
cm.) from the Meiyintang Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9
October 2012, lot 19. Three slightly larger ones are known: two in the
British Museum, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics
in the British Museum, London, 2001, no. 8:15 (23.8 cm.), and no. 8:16
(24.8 cm.), and the third (24 cm.) from the R.F.A. Riesco Collection, sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3116 (Price realised:
HK$3,880,000)(fig. 1).

(mark) fig. 1 The R.F.A. Riesco Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong,
27 November 2013, lot 3116 (Price realised: HK$3,880,000)
圖一 里埃斯科舊藏，香港佳士得，2013 年 1 月 27 日，拍品 3166 號
（成交價：港元 3,880,000）
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