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明永樂 青花纏枝月季紋笠式盌 |
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 HKD
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Description
- 20 公分， 7 7/8 英寸
Provenance
Collection of H. Fairtlough, Esq.
Sotheby's London, 28th May 1968, lot 167.
Bluett & Sons, London.
Sotheby's London, 14th March 1972, lot 133.
Hugh Moss Ltd, London.
Sotheby's London, 28th May 1968, lot 167.
Bluett & Sons, London.
Sotheby's London, 14th March 1972, lot 133.
Hugh Moss Ltd, London.
Condition
整體品相極佳，僅有窰燒時產生之微瑕及表面花痕。
我們很高興為您提供上述拍品狀況報告。由於敝公司非專業修復人員，在此敦促您向其他專業修復人員索取諮詢，以獲得更詳盡、專業之報告。
準買家應該檢查每款拍品以確認其狀況，蘇富比所作的任何陳述均為專業主觀看法而非事實陳述。準買家應參考有關該拍賣的重要通知（見圖錄）。
雖然本狀況報告或有針對某拍品之討論，但所有拍賣品均根據印於圖錄內之業務規則以拍賣時狀況出售。
我們很高興為您提供上述拍品狀況報告。由於敝公司非專業修復人員，在此敦促您向其他專業修復人員索取諮詢，以獲得更詳盡、專業之報告。
準買家應該檢查每款拍品以確認其狀況，蘇富比所作的任何陳述均為專業主觀看法而非事實陳述。準買家應參考有關該拍賣的重要通知（見圖錄）。
雖然本狀況報告或有針對某拍品之討論，但所有拍賣品均根據印於圖錄內之業務規則以拍賣時狀況出售。
Catalogue Note
This rare bowl represents the most exquisite type of ware produced in the imperial kilns during the Yongle reign. It is distinctive for its elegant shape and harmonious floral decoration which has been designed for a pure Chinese aesthetic.
Characterised by spiralled petals to the centre of each bloom, the floral scrolls portrayed on the present bowl can be identified as roses as opposed to more customary peonies or lotuses. Roses seldom feature as a decorative pattern in the repertoire of Chinese ceramics, but do appear occasionally on imperial Yongle porcelains including bowls and dishes of various sizes. See a barbed dish decorated with similar scrolling roses to the interior, sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 108.
The depiction of freely meandering rose scrolls is also unusual, as bowls of similar type are more commonly decorated with formal floral scrolls, with a lappet band around the foot, as illustrated by an example from the Ardebil Shrine and now in the National Museum of Iran, Tehran, published in John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 48, and again in Takatoshi Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections of the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. A60. Only a few extant examples, with similar naturalistic, liberally curving sprays of roses growing from above the foot, are known. Its companion bowl, also from the collection of H. Fairtlough, Esq., was sold in our London rooms in the 1968 sale as the preceding lot. That bowl later reappeared in auction again in our London rooms, 27th November 1973, lot 134. Compare also a restored bowl, with sparser arrangement of roses, from the collection of Mr and Mrs John A. Pope and included in Ming Blue-and-White: An Exhibition of Blue-decorated porcelain of the Ming dynasty, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1949-1950, cat. no. 42.
Characterised by spiralled petals to the centre of each bloom, the floral scrolls portrayed on the present bowl can be identified as roses as opposed to more customary peonies or lotuses. Roses seldom feature as a decorative pattern in the repertoire of Chinese ceramics, but do appear occasionally on imperial Yongle porcelains including bowls and dishes of various sizes. See a barbed dish decorated with similar scrolling roses to the interior, sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 108.
The depiction of freely meandering rose scrolls is also unusual, as bowls of similar type are more commonly decorated with formal floral scrolls, with a lappet band around the foot, as illustrated by an example from the Ardebil Shrine and now in the National Museum of Iran, Tehran, published in John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 48, and again in Takatoshi Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections of the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. A60. Only a few extant examples, with similar naturalistic, liberally curving sprays of roses growing from above the foot, are known. Its companion bowl, also from the collection of H. Fairtlough, Esq., was sold in our London rooms in the 1968 sale as the preceding lot. That bowl later reappeared in auction again in our London rooms, 27th November 1973, lot 134. Compare also a restored bowl, with sparser arrangement of roses, from the collection of Mr and Mrs John A. Pope and included in Ming Blue-and-White: An Exhibition of Blue-decorated porcelain of the Ming dynasty, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1949-1950, cat. no. 42.