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A VERY RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 明嘉靖 青花龍穿蓮紋大缸 六字楷書橫款

‘DRAGON’ BASIN 來源
日本家族珍藏，入藏於1930年代，此後一直在家族中流傳
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) 此缸發色深沉濃郁，畫風剛勁有力。青花龍穿花紋飾常見於
嘉靖大缸，但存世品多為扁闊形大缸，如巴黎佳士得2007年
The basin is sturdily potted with deep walls flaring slightly towards 12月7日拍品127號、紐約蘇富比2004年11月23日拍品640，均
the galleried rim, painted in deep tones of blue on the exterior 繪青花龍穿纏枝蓮紋，行龍造型與畫風與本缸如出一轍，同
with two striding five-clawed dragons amidst scrolling lotus. The 樣書嘉靖橫款，但造形偏矮闊。高窄形的嘉靖大缸如本拍品
interior is covered with a clear glaze. The base is unglazed. 則非常稀有，多見於萬曆例子，如東京1976年出版的《龍泉
20 ¬ in. (52.3 cm.) diam. 集芳》收錄了一件萬曆款青花大缸，論造形及紋飾均與本缸
一致，見970號（圖一）；另一件為印尼國家博物館珍藏，著
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000 錄於1981年日本出版《東洋陶磁》，圖225號。另外有一品種
書萬曆款，造形與本缸一樣，青花行龍上添繪黃彩纏枝靈芝
PROVENANCE 紋，香港蘇富比2005年10月23日曾拍一例，拍品453號。

A Japanese family collection, acquired in the 1930s, and thence by
descent within the family

The present basin is superbly painted rendered in vibrant shades of
deep violet-blue. The same motif of dragons striding through scrolling
lotus could be found on a number of Jiajing-marked basins of a
different form that are much shorter and wider, such as one sold at
Christie’s Paris, 7 December 2007, lot 127, and another one sold at
Sotheby’s New York, 23 November 2004, lot 640. The combination of
this motif and the form of a narrow tall basin on the present example is
extremely rare, and is more commonly seen amongst Wanli examples,
such as an almost identical blue and white basin of the same size
and decoration, but with a Wanli reign mark, illustrated in Mayuyama,
Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 970
(fig. 1); and another one in the National Museum of Indonesia
Collection, illustrated in Toyo Toji, vol. 3, Japan, 1981, no. 225. Another
Wanli-marked basin, also of similar form and painted with a striding
dragon in underglaze blue, but enamelled in yellow and outlined in
blue with lingzhi scrolls, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23 October
2005, lot 453.

fig. 1 A Wanli-marked basin illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years,
vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 970

（圖一）萬曆款青花龍紋缸，著錄於東京 1976 年出版《龍泉集芳》，970 號

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