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A SUPERB BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’
HEXAFOIL BASIN
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The basin is robustly potted in hexafoil section with deep rounded
sides rising from a flat base to a broad everted rim, finely painted in Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 152, the
bright cobalt-blue tones with two confronted, five-clawed dragons
leaping amidst flames and clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl.
The lobed sides are divided into six panels each with a dragon in
pursuit of a flaming pearl, the rim repeated with the same subject,
decorated to the underside of the rim with a further lingzhi scroll,
the base unglazed with a central circle glazed white and inscribed
with the six-character Wanli reign mark in underglaze blue.
15 …/ÿ in. (38.2 cm.) diam., box
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection, acquired from Shogodo in October
2010
明萬曆 青花雙龍戲珠花口洗 雙圈六字楷書款
來源
日本私人珍藏，2010年10月購自尚雅堂
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While similar Wanli-marked blue and white lobed basins are known,
it is very rare to find one with the current pattern in hexafoil form.
Only one other example with this combination appears to have been
published, which is from the Chang Foundation and illustrated in
Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 104.
Other blue and white examples, all in cinquefoil form, include one
similarly painted with a descending and ascending dragon to the centre,
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 651; and two with a single
dragon amid floral scrolls to the centre, one from the Jingguantang
other sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2936.
For wucai examples from this group, compare to two hexafoil basins
decorated with a dragon and phoenix to the centre, one illustrated
in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 753,
the second from the Tokyo National Museum, published in Oriental
Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl.
77; and a cinquefoil basin with a single dragon from the Jingguantang
Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 1997, lot 89.
在萬曆青花花口洗中，此類雙龍戲珠紋飾及六瓣葵式洗相對罕見，只有
一例曾經出版，載於鴻禧美術館，《中國歷代陶瓷選集》，台北，1990 年，
圖版 104。其他的青花五瓣式洗中，一件圖案類似的例子曾在香港 2003
年 7 月 7 日拍賣，拍品 651 號；另有兩件盆心飾單隻五爪龍的例子，一
為靜觀堂舊藏，1997 年 9 月 18 日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品 152 號，另
一件則在香港蘇富比 2008 年 4 月 11 日拍賣，拍品 2936 號。
至於萬曆的五彩花口洗中，可與兩件龍鳳紋六瓣洗相比較。一件載於
《日本陶磁：出光美術館藏品圖錄》，1987 年，圖版 753 號；一件
則為東京國立博物館藏品，見《Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great
Collections》，卷 11，東京，1982 年，圖版 77 號；而靜觀堂舊藏中亦有
一件五彩單龍穿花葵瓣式洗，曾於紐約佳士得 1997 年 3 月 20 日拍賣，
拍品 89 號。