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A SMALL CELADON-GLAZED INCISED DISH
Xuande six-character mark and of the period
The finely-potted shallow sides rising from a tapered wedge-shaped
foot to a flared barbed rim, faintly incised to the interior with stylised
lingzhi scrolls encircling a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue,
applied overall with a thick celadon glaze of sea-green tone, save for
the unglazed footring fired to buff-orange, box.
8.5cm (3 3/8in) diam. (2).

HKD100,000 - 150,000
US$13,000 - 19,000

During the early Ming period the Longquan kilns appear to have worked
closely with the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen making wares of similar form
and decoration, perhaps under Imperial instruction. The Imperial kiln
adopted Longquan celadon and transformed it into a new type of green
glaze, dongqing (wintergreen), a more subtle tone of green during the
Yongle and Xuande periods. Small dongqing-glazed dishes produced in
the Xuande period were treasured during the late Ming period, leading
to copies being made; see a small Xuande-marked celadon-glazed dish,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace
Museum-Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.139, no.126.

The Qing court highly valued this type of Xuande-marked small celadon-
glazed dishes. Neiwufu zaobanchu gezuo chengzuo huoji qingdang
(The Construction Archives of the Imperial Archive) recorded: ‘On the
eleventh date of December in the fortieth year of Qianlong (1775),
Officer Side and Wude and Secretary Fuqing reported that Eunuch Hu
Shijie handed in a small Xuande dongqing-glazed floral-rim dish and
stored it in the storage of Yangxin Hall.’ A similar dish to the present
lot and in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is probably the one
referred to in the archive, and was included in the Museum’s exhibition
Green-Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, no.162.
A pair, from the Carl Kempe collection, is illustrated in Chinese Ceramic
Treasures: A Selection from Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, including
The Carl Kempe Collection, Ulricehamn, 2002, p.294, pl.379. See also
a similar dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by M.H.Lu, Shanghai
bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi, Shanghai, 2007, p.127, pl.3-48.

Compare with a similar small celadon-glazed dish, Xuande six-
character mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 8 October 2019, lot 3613.

明宣德 仿龍泉青釉葵口小碟

「大明宣德年製」款

碟葵花口，外侈，折腰，斜躺腹，圈足細小，露胎，胎骨和釉面交界
處出窯紅，碟身厚施青釉，外壁淺刻如意雲頭紋，碟内腹書青花「大
明宣德年製」六字青花楷書款。

明初龍泉窯有迴光返照之態，蓋因重新獲得皇室青睞，惟彼時龍泉窯
和景德鎮御窯廠在皇室連接下交流密切，皆以「官樣」為本，器型、
工藝多有相同之處，景德鎮亦多有移植龍泉窯釉色及裝飾，惟御窯廠
將此類青釉稱為冬青釉，為永宣時期創製，明代後期亦有仿製，如北
京故宮藏一見明萬曆青釉小碟，亦托宣德款，見《故宮博物院藏珍品
大系：顏色釉》，香港，1999年，圖版126，頁138。

清宮將此類宣窯青釉小碟視若拱璧，《内務府造辦處各作成做活計
清檔》記載：「（乾隆四十年十二月十一日）員外郎四德、庫掌五
德筆貼式福慶來説太監胡世傑交宣窯冬青釉菱花式小碟一件養心殿
庫貯......」台北故宮博物院藏一件宣德青釉花口小碟和本件頗似，外
壁亦刻卷草花紋，内腹書宣德款，見蔡玫芬編，《碧綠－明代龍泉窯
青瓷》，台北，2009年，圖版162。卡爾坎普曾收藏一對類似的宣德
青釉小碟，亦資參考，見《Chinese Ceramic Treasures: A Selection
from Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, including The Carl Kempe
Collection》，烏爾里瑟，2002年，圖版379，頁294。上海博物館亦
藏一件類似小碟，見《上海博物館藏品研究大系—明代官窯瓷器》，
上海，2007年，頁127，圖版3-48。還可比較香港蘇富比售出一件宣
德款青釉小碟，頗似，2019年10月8日，拍品編號3613。
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