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A RARE SMALL DING MOULDED 金 定窯印花鴛鴦蓮池紋盤
‘MANDARIN DUCKS’ DISH
晉崔豹《古今注．鳥獸》：「鴛鴦，水鳥，鳧類也。雌雄未嘗相離，人得
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234) 其一，則一思而死，故曰匹鳥。」以其作為裝飾圖案，古已有之。南朝梁
簡文帝作《和徐錄事見內人作臥具》，內有「衣裁合歡，文作鴛鴦連」之
The shallow dish is delicately moulded on the interior with a pair of 句，後蜀顧 《甘州子》詞：「禁樓刁鬥喜初長，羅薦繡鴛鴦。」元代，蓮
mandarin ducks, one standing on an embankment and the other is 池鴛鴦圖案又稱「滿池嬌」。
swimming amidst lotus and other aquatic plants. The cavetto is decorated
with a band of dense foliate scroll below an everted rim. The dish is covered 有五件出版過的例子可資參考，第一件為仇焱之舊藏，著錄於《The
in an even glaze of ivory tone. The rim is bound with a metal band. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin: Sung Ceramics
Designs》，第42期，斯德哥爾摩，1970年，圖版97b號；第二件藏芝
5 ¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam., box 加哥藝術博物館；第三件藏波士頓美術館，著錄於《Oriental Ceramics:
The World’s Great Collections》，第10冊，東京，1980年，圖版17
HK$300,000-400,000 US$39,000-52,000 號；第四件藏洛杉磯郡藝術博物館，著錄於《Orientations》，2000年
6月，78頁，圖9；第五件2014年11月26日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品
Compare with five closely related examples. The first previously in 3224號。
the collection of Edward T. Chow, illustrated in The Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities Bulletin: Sung Ceramic Designs, no. 42, Stockholm,
1970, pl. 97b; the second from the Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud
Buckingham Collection, 1925. 1009; the third, in the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol.
10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 17; the fourth, in the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, illustrated in Orientations, June 2000, p. 78, fig. 9; the last example
of similar size was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November, 2014, lot
3224.

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