明萬曆 青花龍鳳紋筆船 《大明萬曆年製》款

器呈長方，倭角，撇口，淺腹，隨形矮足。裏分大小二格，以山形板飾相隔。主格繪青花龍鳳紋，龍五爪，作逐珠之勢，鳳長尾，展翅飛舞，下有海水江崖。上方小格，中心繪正面逐珠五爪雲龍。器壁內外亦畫龍鳳紋，輔以捲雲。足外綴回紋。器底直書六字楷款，外加雙框。

康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷2，編號709

There is an old 1 cm flake at one corner of the rim and some fritting along the edge of the rim, more particularly along the right side. There is a small glaze gap at one corner on the underside revealing the brick-red fired biscuit, but generally the washer is in good condition. The white ground is more bluish than the illustration would suggest in the catalogue.
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上海博物館藏有一件與此拍品成對的筆船，錄於《The Chinese Scholar’s Studio. Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period》，亞洲協會畫廊，紐約，1987年，編號47，圖錄指這類器物乃供繪畫時作筆擱，好讓繪者能交替使用不同畫筆。龍鳳紋並繪之筆船甚稀，例可見玫茵堂舊藏五彩筆船，刊於康蕊君，前述出處，編號710，後售於香港蘇富比2012年4月4日，編號33。另有一件青花筆船，飾雙龍紋，原屬趙從衍藏，售於香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號47。另有一器，與此相近，售於香港蘇富比1988年5月17日，編號134，可資比較。