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A CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL ‘SCHOLARLY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS’ BASIN
Late Ming Dynasty
The interior boldly enamelled depicting nine scholars and their
attendants engaged in the ‘Four Scholarly Accomplishments’,
with two pairs playing weiqi next to fenced lotus pond, a group
in the pavilion admiring a painting and playing a qin, and further
two greeting each other in the garden set, the white-ground
cavetto decorated with six cartouches enclosing various flowers,
the everted rim decorated with chi-dragons reserved on a white
ground, the exterior similarly decorated with floral patterns
reserved on white and dark blue grounds.
45.4cm (17 7/8in) diam.

HKD180,000 - 240,000
US$23,000 - 31,000

明晚期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯香山九老圖折沿大盤

This lavishly decorated basin belongs to a group of cloisonné 此類人物故事題材的掐絲琺瑯大盤集中出現在明代中葉之後，是時商
enamel wares produced during the late Ming dynasty, likely made 品經濟發展，文人參與工藝品設計，於是各類材質的藝術品日趨體
for scholars and to enhance the connoisseur’s pleasure by adding 現濃厚的文人意趣。參看巴黎裝飾藝術博物館藏一件明萬曆人物故
richness to the decorative scene. See a closely related example, 事紋大盤，著錄於B. Quette編，《Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from
Wanli period, in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, illustrated by the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011年，頁135，圖
B. Quette, ed., Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming 7.10。另見Pierre Uldry藏一件類似的十六世紀下半葉掐絲琺瑯人物故
and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p.135, fig.7.10; and another 事大盤，著錄於H.Brinker及A.Lutz，《Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die
related basin illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz in the Chinesisches Sammlung Pierre Uldry》，蘇黎世，1984年，圖版114。另見北京故宮
Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984, pl.114. See 博物院藏類似三例，著錄於《故宮博物院藏品大系：琺瑯器編1》，北
also three related cloisonné enamel basins, late Ming dynasty, 京，2011年，編號170-172。
illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum:
Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, nos.170-172.

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