明正德 黃地青花梔子花紋盤 《大明正德年製》款

淺弧腹，敞口，圈足內歛。盤心鈷青畫折枝梔子花，內壁另有折枝桃實、葡萄、石榴、蓮束，外壁則環飾纏枝月季，間隙皆施黃釉，僅足內留白，署青花六字雙圈楷款。

《Evolution to Perfection. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection》，Sporting d’Hiver，蒙地卡羅，1996年，編號126

康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994-2010年，卷2，編號683

There are two hairline cracks at the rim (approx. 4.2 and 3 cm, going partly through at 11 and 5 o'clock), and four other, some rather faint, hairlines to the surface glaze inside the rim (from 1.5 to 2.5 cm, including one with two associated minute flakes on the surface at 7 o'clock, and another going partly over the rim at 4 o'clock). There is some mild wear and a few light scratches to the glaze on the interior. The yellow ground is of a somewhat deeper and richer tone and the blue more pale grey, less cobalt, than the illustration would suggest in the catalogue.
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這種鮮明的黃地青花配色，始見於宣德年間瓷作。而此盤上所繪圖樣，自宣德至嘉靖年間，一直盛行於景德鎮。Soame Jenyns，《Ming Pottery and Porcelain》，倫敦，1953年，圖版56及57a（1988年再版，圖版102-4及彩圖H）刊載四件不同作例，其中倫敦大英博物館藏宣德及成化器各一，另有克羅伊登Riesco珍藏弘治瓷盤，以及大衛德爵士舊藏正德器，後者現亦藏大英博物館。玫茵堂珍藏罕見嘉靖作例，紋樣與此器同，錄於康蕊君，前述出處，卷2，編號684。

飾此紋樣之正德瓷盤，有四或六字年款作例。大英博物館藏品中，各有一例，皆錄於 Jessica Harrison-Hall，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，圖版8:23 及24。另一相似署六字款識之例，現藏上海博物館，載於陸明華，《上海博物館藏品研究大系：明代官窰瓷器》，上海，2007 年，圖版1-41。尚有四字落款作例，現藏北京故宮博物院，錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅（中）》，上海，2000年，圖版233，亦有成化及弘治雛本，見圖版230及231。從正德之作可見，盌內壁折枝花果紋之分布可有不同變化。