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重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

An Elegant Ge Ware Dish for Appreciation and Study

賞鑒千年：南宋哥⒋盤

by Rosemary Scott, Independent scholar

he current would have been highly treasured from the time of
its creation, and remains so to the present day. Evidence for
Tthe esteem in which such early crackled ware dishes were held
during the reigns of the great Qing emperors Yongzheng (1723-35) and
Qianlong (1736-95) can be found in contemporary court paintings –
both informal imperial portraits and detailed depictions of selected
treasures from the imperial collection. Small, lobed, Song or Yuan
crackled ware dishes, similar to the current example, appear on the
famous Yongzheng handscrolls entitled Guwan tu (Pictures of Ancient
Playthings) in the Percival David Collection (currently on loan to the
British Museum) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1728 and
1729 respectively. Sections of the scrolls depicting these related dishes
are illustrated in E.S. Rawski and J. Rawson (eds.), China – The Three
Emperors 1662-1795, Royal Academy, London, 2005, pp. 253 (bottom
row, third from the right) Fig. 1 and 254 (top row second from the right).
The Qianlong Emperor’s admiration for such Song/Yuan crackle-glaze
dishes can also be seen from the fact that vessels similar to the current
dish appear in several informal portraits of the emperor, where he is
depicted as a connoisseur of antiquities. One such portrait is a hanging
scroll by Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766 Lang Shining), entitled
Hongli looking at a Painting, which is in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing (illustrated in China – The Three Emperors 1662-1795,
op. cit., p. 282, no. 194). The emperor is shown seated beside a table
on which a range of precious antiques have been placed – including
jades, bronzes, and early 15th century monochrome porcelains, as well
as a lobed Song/Yuan crackle-glazed dish, similar to the current vessel.
The famous anonymous painting entitled ‘One or Two?’, of which there
are three versions in the Palace Museum, Beijing, also depicts one of
these dishes displayed for the emperor’s enjoyment. Fig. 2 One of these
paintings is illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition The Qianlong
Emperor - Treasures from the Forbidden City, National Museums of
Scotland, Edinburgh, 2002, p. 112, no. 59. The Qianlong emperor is
shown seated on a day-bed in front of a screen on which is hung a Fig. 1 Detail of the Guwan tu (Pictures of Ancient Playthings), Percival David
Collection (currently on loan to the British Museum), dated 1728, ©SOAS
portrait of himself, and surrounded by precious objects from his famous University of London.
collection of antiques. A small crackle-glazed dish, similar to the 圖ˏ Ǘ۵玩圖ǘ♢節， ૯維德Ḍૈ中४藝術基金會 （目עы展̥૯英博ḵ
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