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Cloisonné enamel ewers of this form are extremely rare. Prototypes 此式掐絲琺瑯執壺非常少見，其形製可能受宋代金銀器影響，參看
of this form with a squat body and tall narrow neck, however, can be 一件出土宋代銀執壺，著錄於《中國美術全集：工藝美術編10》，
seen as early as the Song dynasty. See for example, a silver ewer 北京，1996年，編號103。北京故宮博物院中藏顧閎中作「韓熙哉
of related shape, Song dynasty, in the Sichuan Provincial Museum, 夜宴圖」宋摹本中，也能看到類似的執壺置於桌上，見Yang Xin編，
illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, vol.10, Beijing, 1996, no.103. 《Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting》，倫敦，1997年，頁
Indeed, the painting ‘Night Revels of Han Xizai’ attributed to Gu 112-113，編號103。
Gongzhong (937-975), in the Palace Museum, Beijing, shows scenes
of banqueting with ewers of similar shape, and in cooling bowls, on 此式樣執壺至明道初期亦有延續，如伊朗的阿德卑爾神廟中藏一件十
the table, although probably made of metal or porcelain. See Yang 五世紀青花執壺，見J.A.Pope，《Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil
Xin, et al, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, New Haven and Shrine》，華盛頓，1956年，圖版70。
London, 1997, pp.112-113, no.103.
以掐絲琺瑯工藝而製的執壺以玉壺春瓶的垂腹式為常見，例如
This shape continued well into the Ming dynasty and a related blue Pierre Uldry收藏的兩件掐絲琺瑯纏枝花卉紋執壺，十六世紀上半
and white porcelain ewer, late 15th century, is in the Ardebil Shrine 葉，著錄於H.Brinker及A.Lutz《Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry
in Iran. See J.A.Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Collection》，紐約， 1989年，編號95及97。另見美國布魯克林
Washington, 1956, pl.70. 博物館藏一件明晚期執壺，著錄於B.Quette，《Cloisonné: Chinese
Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties》，巴黎，2011
The more common shapes of cloisonné enamel ewers often seen in 年，頁73，圖4.18。
the late Ming dynasty, however, is the slightly more elongated, pear-
shaped ewers inspired by Middle Eastern forms. See for example, two
ewers of pear-shape, second half 16th century, illustrated by H.Brinker
and A.Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York,
1989, nos.95 and 97. See also a related cloisonné enamel ewer, late
Ming dynasty, in the Brooklyn Museum, illustrated by B.Quette in ed.,
Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties,
Paris, 2011, p.73, fig.4.18.

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