宋 / 金 鈞窰天青釉紫斑盌

the deep flaring sides rising to a slightly incurved rim, covered overall in a rich sky-blue glaze punctuated with two vivid crimson-purple splashes on the interior, thinning to a dark-brown flecked mushroom tone at the rim, the underside liberally glazed in a bubble-suffused magenta color transmuting to sky-blue at the rim and base, stopping in an uneven line above the neatly knife-pared foot unglazed revealing the buff-orange body, Japanese wood box

Edward Stern 爵士收藏
Montague Meyer 收藏
倫敦佳士得，1980年4月14日，編號239

There is a two part fine curved line in the glaze visible on the interior and apparently following a potting line partly visible on the exterior around the lower body. There is a single fine hairline crack in the glaze on both sides of the rim approximately 2 1/2 inches (6.5 cm) to the left of the smaller interior splash. There is a characteristic glaze pull and a glaze flaw to the interior, visible in the catalogue photos.
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此款鈞窰紫斑盌為經典北宋造型，其發色上乘、非凡出眾，展現胭紅與絳紫濃淡不一之色調。Rose Kerr 於《Song Dynasty Ceramics》（倫敦，2004年，第34頁）一書中，提到鈞瓷上的斑彩是以銅紅釉粗獷刷繪，或塗覆於天青釉面、高溫中還原，融合一體而形成的。銅釉與渾厚光亮的天青釉形成強烈對比，構成獨一無二之款式。此類盌以其優雅線條及豐富釉彩盡展美態。縱然天青釉銅斑盌為河南鈞窰代表之作，卻鮮有如此器身通體紅潤細緻之品，實乃珍罕難求。

與本品尺寸相近之一例來自Eumorfopoulos 收藏，曾兩度於倫敦蘇富比拍場上售出，分別於1940年5月29日，拍品編號193，以及2004年11月10日，拍品編號541；另一尺寸稍大之例現收藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館，錄於《東洋陶磁大觀》（卷11，東京，1982年，頁47）