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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 MASSIVE WUCAI ‘DRAGON’ GU-FORM 明萬曆 五彩龍穿花鋪首耳方觚式大瓶
VASE 長方框六字楷書橫款
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A 來源
DOUBLE RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) 倫敦佳士得，2001 年 6 月 19 日，拍品 49 號
Modelled after an archaic bronze gu, the well-proportioned vase is
decorated on the exterior with four horizontal registers depicting a 五彩觚式瓶於萬曆時期頗為盛行，但尺寸如此瓶碩大者卻不為多見。
total of twenty dragons in flight above waves and rocks. The mid- 2015 年 10 月 7 日香港蘇富比曾拍賣一件紋飾相同的五彩觚式瓶（75.2
section is applied with four lion-form masks, and the unglazed 公分），見拍品 3662 號。日本出光美術館亦藏一件五彩龍鳳紋觚式瓶
base is pierced with four circular apertures for ventilation. （69.4 公分），見《出光美術館藏品圖錄 - 中國陶磁》，東京，1987
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high, box 年，圖版 203 號。另可比較法國吉美博物館藏一件較小（69.4 公分）但
紋飾相若的青花觚式瓶，載於《Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s London, 19 June 2001, lot 49 Collections》，第七冊，東京，1981 年，圖 81。
HK$600,000-800,000 US$78,000-100,000
The present vase is notable for its colourful enamels and impressive
size. Compare with a very similar vase (75.2 cm.) sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 3662; and another example (74 cm.)
decorated with dragons and phoenix in the Idemitsu Collection,
illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987,
no. 203. Compare also with a slightly shorter blue and white version
(69.4 cm.) in the Museé Guimet, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The
World’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, fig. 81.

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