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PROPERTY FROM AN OLD ASIAN FAMILY COLLECTION 北宋至金 定窰白釉模印牡丹蓮花大盤
AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE AND RARE
MOULDED DINGYAO ‘LOTUS’ DISH
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY 定窰瓷器裝飾技法主要有劃花、刻花及印花，此盤以
印花技法裝飾紋飾，於北宋至金代甚爲流行。工匠以
with shallow rounded sides supported on a tapered foot, 蘑菇形模子，將紋飾印在坯體上，再以竹絲修胎。模
moulded on the interior with a key-fret bordered medallion 子圖案装饰精美绝伦，工序簡單，可大量複製，以供
enclosing leafy lotus sprays, surrounded by additional lotus 市場所求。
blooms wreathed in dense foliage, covered overall save for
the rim with a transparent ivory-tinged glaze 模印牡丹蓮花的定窰瓷器可見於世界各大博物館及私
30 cm, 11¾ in.
人收藏。台北故宮博物院藏兩盤，見《定州花瓷：院
HK$ 300,000-400,000 藏定窰系白瓷特展》，台北，2014年，編號II-159及
US$ 38,300-51,000 II-160。北京故宮博物院藏一例，載於《定瓷雅集：
故宮博物院珍藏及出土定窰瓷器薈萃》，故宮博物
This piece belongs to a distinct group of large dishes from 院，北京，2012年，圖版84。大維德爵士藏一例，足
the Dingyao kilns in Hebei province, with elaborate designs 底落「殿」款，現藏大英博物館，見《Catalogue of
made using a mushroom-shaped mould. Dishes of this Ting Yao and Related White Wares》，倫敦，1964年，
type were pressed onto the mould before the edges were 圖版VIII，編號164。另一例藏美國克里夫蘭藝術博物
trimmed down, a technique that allowed for the manufacture 館，載於 Jan Wirgin，《Sung Ceramic Designs》，斯
of large quantities of finely decorated wares.
德哥爾摩，1970年，圖版78b。1323年新安沉船出水
Dishes moulded with this design are held in important 一件定窰盤，錄於《Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off
museums and private collections worldwide; two dishes of Sinan》，首爾，1985年，卷1，圖版122。
this design, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, were
included in the Museum’s exhibition Decorated Porcelains
of Dingzhou. White Ding Wares from the Collection of the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. nos II-159 and
II-160; a dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated
in Selection of Ding Ware, Beijing, 2012, pl. 84; another
inscribed with the character dian (‘palace’) on the foot, from
the Sir Percival David collection, now in the British Museum,
London, is illustrated in Hin-Cheung Lovell, Illustrated
Catalogue of Ting Yao and Related White Wares, London,
1964, pl. VIII, no. 164; and a further dish in the Cleveland
Museum of Art, is illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic
Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 78b. See also a dish of this
type recovered from a shipwreck that sunk off the coast of
Korea in 1323, illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed
off Sinan, Seoul, 1985, vol. 1, pl. 122.

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