元 吉州窰黑釉剪紙剔鳳凰紋瓶

the baluster body rising from a slightly spreading foot to a waisted neck and slightly lipped rim, applied with a thick opaque black glaze, reserved on the buff biscuit with two pairs of phoenix circling in the air, one of each with four long tail feathers, the two pairs divided by clouds, the base glazed in black below the foot

倫敦蘇富比1990年12月11日， 編號220

This vase is in good condition with the exception of two shallow chips at the foot possibly from firing. There is a fine network of crackle running through the glaze.
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本瓶鳳凰紋飾鮮明粗獷，鮮見於吉州窰瓶。本品釉色呈棕黑，與兩對鳳凰紋飾黑白相映。鳳凰紋飾刻畫利落，如筆墨揮毫，寥寥數筆，鳳目及羽翼神采奕現。 比較一相近瓶例，現藏於哈佛大學美術館Arthur M. Sackler Museum，載於Robert D. Mowry，《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers》，哈佛藝術博物館，劍橋，麻省，1995年， 圖版103；另一例載於Nuno de Castro，《A Ceramica e a Porcelana Chinesas》，波爾圖，1992年，卷1，圖版169，售於倫敦蘇富比1990年12月11日，編號220；另一例同繪梅紋，尺寸較大，售於紐約蘇富比2015年3月17日，編號181。再比一例，尺寸較小，紋飾亦較簡單，售於香港蘇富比2015年12月4日，編號265。另比一例，器形相近，飾盛放梅花，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，1996年，圖版217。

Mowry（前述出處，頁253）指，此器形乃宋代經典，靈感源自銀瓶，可比一件於江蘇省江浦縣、斷代1195年之古墓出土銀瓶作例。1320年代初於韓國新安區域沉沒之沉船亦曾打撈一例。Mowry並述，新安沉船出土之銀瓶直壁、瓶肩高而闊、束頸、瓶口微外撇，或為最接近如本品器形之原型。