明景泰 掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋盤 《大明景泰年製》 |

倫敦佳士得2007年5月15日，編號119

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This classic design, with the lotus medallion at the centre, comprised of a lotus pod with articulated seeds and radiating petals, is found on several examples dating to the Xuande period. See a Xuande reign-marked disc originally in the collections of Stephen Winkworth and Sir Percival David, now in the Uldry collection at the Rietberg Museum, illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, London, 1989, pl. 1, along with several boxes featuring the same motif, ibid, pls 2-4. A striking aspect of the present dish is the double-row of twelve radiating petals surrounding the pod.

A comparable example with incised Jingtai six-character mark was sold in our London rooms, 14th July 1981, lot 12. A slightly larger dish, diameter 26 cm, sold in our London rooms, 29th October 1982, lot 14, is now in the Uldry collection, illustrated in Brinker and Lutz, ibid, pl. 14, with very similar decoration and a double-vajra incised to the gilded underside. Compare also another Jingtai-marked dish, first sold at Christie’s New York, 3rd June 1988, lot 44, and most recently at Christie’s London, 7th November 2006, lot 2682.

There has been speculation in the past that Jingtai reign-marked wares of the quality of the current dish, stylistically identical to Xuande wares, are in fact of the Xuande period but with later incised marks. Cloisonné enamel wares with apocryphal Jingtai marks are also frequently found, especially from the Qianlong period, when Imperial records detail the specific order to inscribe vessels with Jingtai marks.

The delicately incised Jingtai six-character mark on the current dish is identical to that on a circular cloisonné enamel box and cover in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, similarly enamelled with lotus flowers, and catalogued as Jingtai mark and period, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 1.