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216 盤敞口，弧壁，圈足，通體施黃釉，釉面勻淨，釉色嬌嫩素雅。低溫黃
A fine Imperial yellow-glazed saucer dish 釉瓷創燒於明初景德鎮官窯，為皇家控制最嚴格的一種釉色，明清兩代
Hongzhi six-character mark and of the period 黃釉瓷器只供皇家御用，其中以明弘治朝燒造最佳，色澤均勻嬌豔，俗
Covered all over in an even rich yellow egg-yolk glaze, the base with a 稱為「澆黃」或「嬌黃」。
six-character Imperial kaishu mark within double circles in underglaze-
blue. 參看與本品相類之北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏弘治黃釉盤，著錄於《故
21.3cm diam. 宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：顏色釉》，香港，1999年，圖版39。另見
HK$400,000 - 600,000 大英博物館藏三件件弘治黃釉盤，其中一件尺寸與本品幾乎一致，見
US$52,000 - 77,000 霍吉淑，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，
頁185-187。過往拍賣之例，見巴黎佳士得2005年6月15日，拍品編號
明弘治 嬌黃釉敞口盤 青花雙圈「大明弘治年製」楷書款 204， 後又於香港蘇富比2013年10月8日拍出，拍品編號224。

There are not very many examples of Hongzhi period (1488-1505)
ceramic wares that remain from this short seventeen years reign, even in
important museum collections around the world. White being the most
common monochrome colour to appear in ceramic wares in this period,
yellow monochrome (as exhibited by the current lot) is considered rarer
than white. It is difficult to find well-preserved examples of yellow-glazed
Hongzhi dishes as the thin overglaze yellow is easily worn.

Compare an identical yellow-glazed dish with Hongzhi six-character
mark in the Qing court collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Monochrome Porcelain. The Complete Collection of the Treasures
of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 1999, p.44, no.39. See also two
similar and one identical-sized yellow-glazed dishes dated to the
Hongzhi period in the British Museum, London, individually bequeathed
by Harry Oppenheim (accession no.OA1947.7-12.291), Marjory
Coldwell (accession no.OA1943.2-15.16) and Sir John Addis (accession
no.OA1984.2-2.4), illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in
the British Museum, London, 2001, pp.185-187, no.7:18, 7:19 & 7:20.
For an example sold at auction, see a Hongzhi yellow-glazed dish sold
at Christie’s Paris, 15 june 2005, lot 204; and again in Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 224.

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