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This bowl, with its graceful design of roses liberally executed 此盌堪稱永樂御窰製瓷至臻典範，器形雋秀蘊藉，青花曼妙
in shades of cobalt blue, exemplifies the subtle yet striking 動人，柔瓣散舒，幽芳怒綻，突顯純樸和諧的中國美學。本
porcelain painting style that is characteristic of the Yongle 品捨常見纏枝蓮或牡丹紋，而取月季花為題。綜觀歷代瓷器
reign. The superb juxtaposition of the unrestrained brushwork 花卉紋飾，月季紋實為稀有，若非內層花瓣旋卷而發，難以
and the white negative space simultaneously allowed the
肯定此乃月季。
craftsman to achieve balance and harmony in the overall
composition in a highly understated manner.
相類近例存世者鳳毛麟角，其中罕例包括售於香港佳士得
The incorporation of roses as a motif on the current bowl 1996年11月4日，編號706A。與本品成對者，同屬利國偉爵
is also extremely rare, as opposed to the like of peonies, as 士舊藏，近售於香港蘇富比2018年10月3日，編號105，原為
roses are far less frequently seen in the repertoire of Chinese H. Fairtlough Esq. 寶蓄，先後兩度於倫敦蘇富比拍出，分別
ceramics. They are also more difficult to identify with certainty 為1968年5月28日，編號167及1973年11月27日，編號133
if it were not for the rosehips and spiralled innermost petals to
，二回均與此盌相鄰。John A. Pope 伉儷也藏一例，唯月季
each bloom as seen on the current bowl.
紋較顯疏落，曾展於《Ming Blue-and-White: An Exhibition
Only a number of extant related examples appears to be of Blue-decorated porcelain of the Ming dynasty》，芝
recorded, including one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4th 加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，1949-1950年，編號42。
November 1996, lot 706A, and the companion piece to the
current bowl, recently sold in these rooms, 3rd October 2018, 另可參考相關繪飾其他花卉之盌，見阿德比爾聖殿舊藏一
lot 105, from the collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee. Also from the
例，現存德黑蘭伊朗國家博物館，錄於 John Alexander
collection of H. Fairtlough, Esq., it was sold in our London
Pope，《Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine》，
rooms, 28th May 1968, lot 167, as the subsequent lot, and
華盛頓，1956年，圖版48，同載於三杉隆敏，《中近東之中
later reappeared in our London rooms, 27th November 1973,
國瓷器》，卷3，香港，1981年，編號A60。
lot 133, as the preceding lot. Compare also a related bowl, with
a sparser arrangement of roses, from the collection of Mr and
Mrs John A. Pope and included in Ming Blue-and-White: An
Exhibition of Blue-decorated porcelain of the Ming dynasty,
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1949-1950, cat. no. 42.
For examples of conical bowls decorated with a different
floral design, see one from the Ardebil Shrine and now in
the National Museum of Iran, Tehran, illustrated in John
Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine,
Washington, 1956, pl. 48, and again in Takatoshi Misugi,
Chinese Porcelain Collections of the Near East, Topkapi and
Ardebil, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. A60.