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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE
‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) EXHIBITED
明萬曆 青花雙龍戲珠紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款
HK$300,000-500,000
US$39,000-64,000
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The deep bowl is painted in cobalt of deep sapphire-blue tones with
a pair of sinuous five-clawed dragons striding amid clouds in pursuit
of flaming pearls, above a band of linked ruyi-heads. The centre
of the interior is painted with a double-line roundel enclosing a
dragon and a phoenix in flight amid lotus scrolls.
8 º in. (21.1 cm.) diam.
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, 1984-
2017
It is very rare to find a bowl in this design and size from the Wanli
period. The current bowl was probably made during the early Wanli
period as bowls of similar patterns can be found on Longqing-marked
examples, such as one of comparable size (22.5 cm. diam.) from the
collections of Woodbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, and Dr
Ip Yee, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 189,
and a smaller bowl (12.7 cm. diam.) from the J.M. Hu Collection,
sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 2014, lot 2116, but with
a double- and single- dragon roundel on the interior, respectively.
Compare also, to a larger (36.5 cm. diam.) Wanli-marked bowl of
similar design on the exterior but also a single-dragon roundel on the
interior, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 683.
展覽
德州聖安東尼奧美術館，1984-2017年
此盌外壁繪以雙龍戲珠紋，近足處如意雲頭紋一圈，盌心繪一龍
鳳穿花紋，紋飾組合十分特殊，似未見其他相同例子。隆慶一
朝曾燒製類似作品，如Woodbridge、Eugene Bernat伉儷及葉義醫
生先後遞藏一件，其外壁紋飾及尺寸（口徑22.5公分）均與此相
仿，惟盌心飾以雙龍紋；以及暫得樓舊藏一件，其於2014年3月
20日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品2116號，尺寸較小
（口徑12.7公分），盌心為雲龍紋。另可比較一件萬曆款青花大
盌，見佳士得1996年4月29日拍賣，拍品683號，其外壁紋飾主題
雖與此相似，但構圖較為鬆散，勾勒亦不如此清晰。此盌於畫風
上更貼近隆慶作品，故推測應為萬曆早期之作品。