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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FIGURAL’ 明十五世紀 青花人物圖筒式三足爐
TRIPOD CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY 來源
日本大津市三井寺珍藏（根據日本木盒上之標籤）
The cylindrical censer is painted on the exterior with several
figures in a garden scene, featuring a gentleman looking back at 有兩件造型及紋飾相似的青花爐可資比較。第一件藏北京故宮博物院，
two scholars in conversation, followed by an attendant with a 上飾青花茅山道士圖，定年弘治，見故宮博物院藏珍品全集《青花釉裏
carrying pole, divided by an architectural complex partially behind 紅（中）》，香港， 2000，圖版 43。（圖一）該件筒爐亦載於耿寶昌著《明
rocks and grassy mounds, all below a moulded band and a keyfret 清瓷器鑒定》，北京，1993，頁 106，圖 195，書中提到：「此類造型
band, and raised on three cabriole legs painted with floral motifs. 的爐為成化前後所多見。器均胎薄體輕，釉面青白肥潤，紋飾纖細柔和、
The underside of the base is unglazed except for the outermost 清晰疏朗，青花色調艷麗並有暈散，器壁常繪山水人物圖景。」第二件
ring. 源自繭山龍泉堂，著錄於《龍泉集芳》，第一集，東京，1976 年，頁
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., lacquer cover, Japanese wood box 252，圖版 760；後於 2019 年 5 月 29 日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品 2926 號。
HK$500,000-700,000 US$65,000-91,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Mii Temple, Otsu, Japan, according to the label on
the Japanese wood box
Two blue and white censers of similar form, design and size are known.
The first one, depicting Daoist figures and dating to the Hongzhi period,
is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain with
Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, no. 43. (fig. 1) The same censer
is also illustrated by Geng Baochang under the section of Hongzhi
porcelain in Mingqing ciqi jianding, Beijing, 1993, p. 106, fig. 195, where
he comments on the popularity of this type of censers in the latter half
of the 15th century. The second one, decorated with an elderly man on a
donkey with other figures, was illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years,
vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 252, no. 760, and later sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 2926. It is interesting to note that all three
censers, including the current example, have very similar mouth rims
decorated with keyfrets, and cabriole feet painted with floral motifs. The
considerably free and fluid painting style seen on these three examples
is also strikingly similar.

fig. 1 A blue and white censer. Hongzhi period.
Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 明弘治 青花人物圖筒式三足爐 北京故宮博物院藏品

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