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ANOTHER PROPERTY

3119

A VERY RARE YUE MISE BOX AND COVER

LATE TANG DYNASTY-FIVE DYNASTIES, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

The box and cover are of the same shallow domed shape with
straight sides, with an incised band near the upper rim of the
cover, covered overall under an even and semi-translucent glaze of
yellowish-olive tone, with the exception of the ten oval spur marks
on the underside of the box, and the mouth rims of the box and
cover where twenty-six corresponding spur marks are visible.
6 √ in. (17.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000

PROVENANCE

Matsushita Corporate Collection, Japan

EXHIBITED fig. 1
圖一
Tokyo National Museum, Special Exhibition: Chinese Ceramics,
Tokyo, 12 October – 23 November 1994, Catalogue no. 131 fig. 2
圖二
Surviving Yue boxes of this size and quality of glaze are exceptionally
rare. Compare to a round cosmetic box and cover (9.4 cm.) from Lot 3119 base
the Tang dynasty, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci: Yueyao, Shanghai, 本拍品底部
1983, no. 154, which has a proportionally taller box but has the same
incised band around the upper rim of the cover; and another Tang-
dynasty round cover (9 cm.) of this form with a remarkably similar
glaze, recovered from the Shanglinhu Yue kiln site, Zhejiang province,
which was the centre of production of Yue wares during the Tang and
Song dynasties, see Shanglinhu Yueyao, Beijing, 2002, col. pl. 2/5;
and a shallower cosmetic box (8.4 cm.) (fig. 1) similarly fired on spurs
(fig. 2) uncovered from Kangling, the Mausoleum of Lady Ma (890-
939), the principal wife of the second King of the Wuyue Kingdom,
illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China
– 9 – Zhejiang, Beijing, 2008, p. 145, no. 145, which the author suggests
might be an example from a group of the finest Yue porcelain known as
the mise ware.

晚唐 / 五代 越窯秘色青瓷盒

來源
日本松下企業珍藏

展覽
東京國立博物館，《特別展：中国の陶磁》，東京，1994年
10月12日–11月23日，圖錄圖版131號

此盒的釉質極其平滑，入手溫潤如玉，為晚唐五代越窯成熟期的佳作。
越窯圓盒以尺寸較小的粉盒、油盒居多，如此鏡盒大小者極為珍罕。
造型近似的例子可比較一件形狀較為圓厚的唐代粉盒(直徑9.4公分)，載
於《中國陶瓷–越窯》，上海，1983年，圖版154號；一件釉色及光澤
極為類似的圓蓋，於上林湖越窯唐代窯址出土，見《上林湖窯址》，
北京，2002年，彩色圖版2/5；及一件較為平淺的五代粉盒（直徑8.4公
分）（圖一），同為支燒（圖二），於1996年自浙江省臨安縣玲瓏鎮五
代後晉天福四年(939)康陵出土，見《中國出土瓷器全集–9–浙江》，
北京，2008年，頁145，圖版145號。康陵為吳越國第二代國王錢元瓘妻
恭穆夫人馬氏的陵墓，可見此類圓盒於當時所受的重視。

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