The Leshantang Collection – Treasures of Chinese Art from the Tsai I-Ming Collection
The Leshantang Collection – Treasures of Chinese Art from the Tsai I-Ming Collection
An extremely rare blue-ground yellow and green-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowl, Mark and period of Zhengde | 明正德 青花黃綠彩劃雲龍紋盌 《正德年製》青花四字黃彩雙圈款
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An extremely rare blue-ground yellow and green-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowl,
Mark and period of Zhengde
明正德 青花黃綠彩劃雲龍紋盌
《正德年製》青花四字黃彩雙圈款
finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the exterior deftly painted with two ferocious five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst ruyi clouds, their sinuous bodies enamelled over the glaze in vivid yellow with the mane and whiskers highlighted in bright green, all reserved on an underglaze blue ground save for a simple yellow-band at the mouth and repeated at the foot, the interior left white and finely incised with two dragons surrounding a central medallion of a flaming pearl, the base inscribed with a four-character reign mark in underglaze-blue within a yellow-enamelled double circle
15.8 cm
Eskenazi Ltd, London.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26th November 1980, lot 242.
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-99).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 54.
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
香港蘇富比1980年11月26日，編號242
趙從衍（1912-99年）收藏
香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號54
Zhongguo mingtao Riben xunhui zhan. Gangtai mingjia shoucang taoci jingpin [Exhibition of famous Chinese ceramics touring Japan. Fine ceramics from private Hong Kong and Taiwanese Collections], Museum of History, Taipei, 1992, p. 138.
Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Qing porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, p. 121 and col. pl. 52.
Sotheby's Hong Kong – Twenty Years, 1973-1993, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 163.
The Leshantang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, pl. 20.
Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, Chinese version, Shanghai, 2015, pl. 380.
《中國名陶日本巡迴展—港台名家收藏陶瓷精品》，歷史博物館，台北，1992年，頁138
耿寶昌，《明清瓷器鑑定》，香港，1993年，頁121及彩圖52
《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版163
《樂山堂藏瓷》，台北，2005年，圖版20
埃斯卡納齊，薛好佩整理，《中國藝術品經眼錄：埃斯卡納齊的回憶》，倫敦，2012年，中譯版，上海，2015年，2017年再版，圖版380
Chūgoku meitō ten: Chūgoku tōji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of important Chinese ceramics: Essence of two thousand years of Chinese ceramics], Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, and six other locations in Japan, 1992, cat. no. 86.
Ching Wan Society Millennium Exhibition, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 2000, cat. no. 90.
《中国名陶展：中国陶磁2000年の精華》，橋高島屋，東京，以及其他六個日本縣市，1992年，編號86
《千禧年清翫雅集收藏展》，鴻禧美術館，台北，2000年，編號90