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Cups of this type are often referred to as ‘puzzle’ cups for their 此類公道盃，盃內見拱形結構，並有孔隙供水流入，盃中
ingenious and playful construction. These cups were modelled 注水，孔內小人便隨之浮現，精巧奇趣。
with a domed structure with openings that allowed water to
flow through. When the cup was filled a small figure would 可比較一鈞窰類例，大維德爵士舊藏，現藏於倫敦大英博
appear, amusing its user. 物館，曾錄於《Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing
Wares》，倫敦，1999年，圖版47。另見一元代作例，
A Junyao ‘puzzle cup’, from the Sir Percival David Collection, 出土於蒙古赤峰市寧城縣，錄於《中國陶瓷全集》，上
now in the British Museum, London, was included in Illustrated 海，2000年，圖版215。此外，康蕊君編，《悅古堂：柏
Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares, 林藏中國陶瓷》中亦錄有一宋代白釉例，柏林，2000年，
London, 1999, pl. 47; and another, excavated from Ningcheng, 圖版216。
Chifeng, in Inner Mongolia, dated to the Yuan dynasty, is
published in The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics,
Shanghai, 2000, pl. 215. See also a white-glazed ‘puzzle’ cup
attributed to the Song dynasty, published in Regina Krahl,
Yuegutang. Eine Berliner Sammlung chinesischer Keramik,
Berlin, 2000, pl. 216.

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