清雍正 鬪彩雞缸盃一對 《大清雍正年製》款

modelled after the Chenghua prototype, each finely potted with gently flared sides, painted around the exterior in bright translucent enamels fluently outlined in clear underglaze blue with a cockerel and an aubergine-coloured hen on one side observing each other, surrounded by their four yellow chicks, the reverse with another cockerel accompanied by a yellow hen with her brood of five chicks, one riding on her back and two struggling over a worm, the cockerel parading with his red crowned head lowered and his black tail feathers displayed, all amongst iron-red roses, yellow lilies and green bamboos growing by pierced craggy rocks in cobalt blue washes, the slightly recessed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark in regular script arranged in two columns enclosed within double squares

香港蘇富比1993年4月27日，編號182

《歷化文物萃珍：敏求精舍三十週年紀念展》，香港藝術館，香港，1990-1年，編號165

The overall condition of the pair is excellent, with only a few stained pinprick air bubbles and some minor surface scratches.
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此對雍正年製雞缸盃，承襲明十五世紀成化器形，然繪風破舊立新，以意創造，甚為稀有。相類罕例，Sedgwick 典藏有存，曾見於東方陶瓷學會展覽《The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty》，倫敦，1964年，編號194，後售於香港蘇富比1989年11月14日，編號230。另有一例，售於香港蘇富比1990年5月15日，編號284。

對比成化雞缸盃例，饒有趣味。參考仇焱之舊藏，售於香港蘇富比1980年11月25日，編號31，或本季拍賣之玫茵堂藏成化雞缸盃，編號1，曾為 Leopold Dreyfus 寶蓄。縱然悉繪子母雞圖，畫公雞偕母率幼雛覓食，園中且有花葉秀石，但雍正盃上雄雞位置有別，尾毛蓬鬆而非如成化典型分成三簇，黃彩萱草叢改畫竹，伴以萱花一朵，另一面月桂秀石之佈局也異於前。

仇焱之藏成化例，圖刊於 Cécile et Michel Beurdeley，《La céramique chinoise》，Fribourg，1974年，彩圖71及72，同書並錄仇氏藏康熙、雍正款例，後皆售於蘇富比，但此類清朝例子，臨摹成窰雞缸細緻逼真，沿襲昔時器形、畫風、佈局、雙方框款，便是公雞尾巴也同飾羽毛三簇。