A very rare anhua-decorated blue and white 'dragon' dish, Mark and period of Xuande | 明宣德 青花暗雲龍紋盤 《大明宣德年製》款
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finely potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a gently flared rim, the interior painted in shades of deep cobalt blue with three ruyi clouds radiating from the slightly sunk centre, enclosed within a double-line border, the flared rim edged with a classic scroll, the cavetto decorated in anhua with two dragons, echoed on the exterior with two cobalt-blue dragons pursuing flaming pearls, interspersed with groups of three clouds, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle, Japanese double wood box
20.2 cm
Collection of Major Lindsay F. Hay (1891-1946).
Sotheby's London, 25th June 1946, lot 45.
C.T. Loo & Cie.
Collection of Frederick M. Mayer (d. 1974).
Christie's London, 24th June 1974, lot 92.
Spink & Son Ltd, London (label).
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), Hong Kong.
Collection of T.Y. Chao Family Trust, inv. no. 14.
Offered at Replica Shoes 's Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 33.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1st November 1999, lot 313.
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.
A Japanese private collection.
An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1949, cat. no. 65.
Loan Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: 14th to 19th Centuries, Oriental Ceramic Society, Arts Council Gallery, London, 1953-54, cat. no. 64.
Ming and Qing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 15.
Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 36.
Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 45.
Christian Boehm, 'A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection', Arts of Asia, July-August 2018, fig. 23.
Tosetsu / A Monthly Journal Published by The Japan Ceramic Society, vol. 803, March 2020, pl. 4.
Xuande dishes of this design are extremely rare, although this pattern was in use from the Hongwu to the Zhengde period. Another dish of this type, also of Xuande mark and period but with straight instead of a flared rim, is in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Misugi, Blue and White Ceramics of the World, vol. 2, Kyoto, 1982, pls 56a and b. A Hongwu and a Yongle prototype are illustrated together in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Beijing, 1993, figs 6 and 7; another Yongle version was sold in these rooms, 5th November 1997, lot 1366.
No Xuande dish of this pattern is recorded in the Taipei Palace Museum collection, but a related dish with three clouds on the inside and phoenix on the outside is published in the Museum's Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 191.
來源
Lindsay F. Hay 少校（1891-1946年）收藏
倫敦蘇富比1946年6月25日，編號45
盧芹齋
Frederick M. Mayer （1974年卒）收藏
倫敦佳士得1974年6月24日，編號92
斯賓克，倫敦（標籤）
趙從衍（1912-1999年）收藏，香港
趙從衍家族基金會收藏，編號14
上拍於香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號33
香港蘇富比1999年11月1日，編號313
繭山龍泉堂，東京
日本私人收藏
展覽
《An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty》，費城藝術博物館，費城，1949年，編號65
《Loan Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: 14th to 19th Centuries》，東方陶瓷學會，Arts Council Gallery，倫敦，1953-54年，編號64
《Ming and Qing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation》, 香港藝術館，香港，1978年，編號15
《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》，吉美博物館，巴黎，2017年，編號36
《イセコレクション―世界を魅了した中国陶磁》，大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館，大阪，2017年，編號45
出版
Christian Boehm，〈A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection〉，《亞洲藝術》，2018年7/8月，圖23
《陶説》，803期，2020年3月，圖版4
此類青花紋飾宣德盤實屬稀世珍品，雖此圖式自洪武沿用至正德年間。倫敦大英博物館藏有一例同紋飾宣德年製盤器，參見三上次男，《世界青花瓷》，卷二，京都，1982年，圖版56a-b，惟其口沿作直邊而非外撇式。另見耿寶昌，《明清瓷器鑑定》，北京，1993年，圖6-7，並載洪武、永樂原型各一；而永樂作例曾於1997年11月5日在香港蘇富比釋出，編號1366。
查台北故宮博物院藏宣德瓷器中，未見此類紋飾盤器著錄，然該院《明代宣德官窯精華特展圖錄》，台北，1998年，編號191，其內繪三雲外飾鳳紋盤，可資參照。