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Fig. 1 Fig. 2
‘Qiangjin’ laquer sutra cover, Ming dynasty, Yongle period, detail Blue and white ‘pomegranate’ vase, mark and period of Xuande
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th April 2014, lot 38 Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6th April 2016, lot 19
圖一 圖二
明永樂 朱漆戧金八寶蓮瓣紋經板局部 明宣德 青花折枝靈芝紋石榴尊 《大明宣德年製》款
香港蘇富比2014年4月4日，編號38 香港蘇富比2016年4月6日，編號19

Vases of this design of Xuande mark and period are in the These porcelain vases may have inspired later cloisonné
Palace Museum, from the Qing court collection, and in examples, perhaps studded with jewels; see a vase shown
the National Museum of China, both in Beijing, the former to the left of the Tianqi Emperor (r. 1621-7) in an official
illustrated in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang court portrait, included in the exhibition Power and Glory:
Ming chu qinghua ci [Early Ming blue-and-white porcelain in Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty, Asian Art Museum, San
the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2002, vol. 1, pl. 100; the latter Francisco, 2008, p. 262, cat. no. 149.
published in Zhongguo Guojia Bowuguan guancang wenwu
yanjiu congshu/Studies on the Collections of the National
Museum of China. Ciqi juan [Porcelain section]: Mingdai
[Ming dynasty], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 33; and an example from
the collections of Derek G. Ide (d. 1979) and Roger Pilkington
(1928-1969) was sold in these rooms, 6th April 2016, lot 19
(fig. 2).

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