View full screen - View 1 of Lot 5050. A fine yellow-ground and underglaze-blue 'gardenia' dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi | 明弘治 黃地青花折枝梔子花果紋盤 《大明弘治年製》款.

A fine yellow-ground and underglaze-blue 'gardenia' dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi | 明弘治 黃地青花折枝梔子花果紋盤 《大明弘治年製》款

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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 8,000,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, freely painted in shaded tones of cobalt reserved on a rich yellow ground, the interior with a slightly recessed medallion enclosing a leafy branch bearing two five-petalled gardenia blooms and buds, encircled on the cavetto by fruiting branches of pomegranate, crabapple, grape and a beribboned lotus bouquet, all between double-line borders, the exterior with a continuous scroll of seven large blooming roses borne on a foliate stem, between double lines at the rim and foot, the base left white and inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double circle, Japanese wood box

26.8 cm

A Japanese private collection, prior to 1885.

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Chugoku Meitou Hyakusen Ten [A Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Selected Masterpieces], Takashimaya (Osaka), Osaka, 1961, cat. no. 77.

Chugoku Meitou Ten [Chinese Ceramics. A Loan Exhibition of Selected Masterpieces], Hiroshima Fukuya, Hiroshima, 1961, cat. no. 66.

Toyo no Toji Aichiken Toji Shiryokan Honkan Kinen Tokubetsu Ten [Exhibition of Oriental Ceramics Special Exhibition to commemorate the opening of main wing of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Ceramics], Aichi, 1979, cat. no. 115.

Min Shin no bijutsu [Art of the Ming and Qing dynasties], vol. 5, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-47.

Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 41.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 51.

Mindai no Sometsuke to Akae [Porcelains with Blue-and-White and Red-Enamels from the Ming Dynasty], Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 1953, no. 25.

Yasaburo Shimonaka, Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu [Complete Series of World Replica Handbags s], vol. 20: Min Shin Kindai [Ming, Qing and Modern], Tokyo, 1953, no. 160.

Zauho Kankokai, Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 11: Gen Min [Yuan and Ming], Tokyo, 1955, pl. 89 (top).

Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 804.

Gakuji Hasebe ed. Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 14: Min [Ming], Tokyo, 1976, fig. 47.

Osaka Municipal Art Museum ed., Min Shin no Bijutsu [Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties], Tokyo, 1982, pl. 88.

Nagomi [A Monthly Magazine by Tankosha], Tankosha, Tokyo, May 2018, p. 17.

Christian Boehm, 'A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection', Arts of Asia, July-August 2018, fig. 26.

The present piece is especially fine for its brilliant and striking combination of the blue and yellow colours and for the bold but perfectly arranged design of flowers and fruit. For Xuande and Chenghua prototypes in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, nos. 4:43 and 6:16.


Hongzhi dishes of this design can be found in important museum and private collections; for example see two in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], vol. II, Tokyo, 1977, pls. 72 and 73, together with their blue-and-white counterparts, pls 70 and 71; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 231, together with a Chenghua example, pl. 230, and a Zhengde example, pl. 233. Compare also a dish in the Shanghai Museum included in the exhibition Chugoku rekidai toji ten [Chinese ceramics through the ages], Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo, 1984, cat. no. 80.


From Western museum collections, compare a similar dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 16; one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, op.cit., vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 226, from the Kempe Collection; another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1674, and sold in these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 57; and a fourth example from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, included in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1966, cat. no. A740. The companion dish of the Percival David Foundation was sold in our London rooms, 15th October 1968, lot 108, and again in these rooms, 4th April 2017, lot 2, from the collection of Maureen Pilkington.


A similar dish from the T.Y. Chao collection was sold in these rooms, 31st October 1995, lot 387; and another from the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 22.


來源

日本私人收藏,1885年前

繭山龍泉堂,東京


展覽

《中国名陶百選展》,髙島屋(大阪),大阪,1961年,編號77

《中国名陶展》,日本經濟新聞社,廣島福屋,廣島,1961年,編號66

《東洋の陶磁:愛知県陶磁資料館本館記念特別展》,愛知縣陶瓷資料館,愛知,1979年,編號115

《中国美術展シリーズ5.明清の美術》,大阪市立美術館,大阪,1980年,編號1-47

《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》,吉美博物館,巴黎,2017年,編號41

《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51


出版

《明代の染付と赤絵》,日本陶磁協会,東京,1953年,圖版25

下中彌三郎,《世界美術全集》,東京,1953年,圖版160

座右宝刊行会編,《世界陶磁全集》,卷十一:元明,東京,1955年,編號89(上)

《龍泉集芳》,卷1,繭山龍泉堂,東京,1976年,圖版804

長谷部楽爾等,《世界陶磁全集》,卷十四:明,東京,1976年,圖47

大阪市立美術館編、《明清の美術》,東京,1982年,圖版88

《なごみ》,淡交社,東京,2018年5月,頁17

Christian Boehm,〈A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection〉,《亞洲藝術》,2018年7/8月,圖26


此盤青花發色亮麗,黃地瑩亮嬌嫩,繪工細膩流暢。其宣德、成化原型,可參考倫敦大英博物館藏例,見霍吉淑,《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》,倫敦,2001年,編號4:43及6:16。 


博物館及私人藏家都有見弘治黃地青花梔子花盤藏例。台北故宮博物院藏兩件,見《明瓷名品図録》,卷II,東京, 1977年,圖版72及73,另有青花梔子花盤,圖版70及71。一件藏北京故宮博物院,見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集.青花釉裏紅 (中)》 ,上海,2000 年,圖231;另有成化例,圖版230及正德例,圖版233。一例為上海博物館館藏,曾展於《中国歴代陶磁展》,西武美術館,東京,1984年,編號80。


在西方博物館收藏中,美國大都會藝術博物館藏一件,見《東洋陶磁大観》,卷2,東京,1982年,彩圖版16。一件藏為瑞典斯德哥爾摩東亞博物館所藏,同前註,卷8,東京,1982,圖版226,源自卡爾肯普(Carl Kempe)收藏。另見康蕊君著《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》,卷4,倫敦,1994-2010年,編號1674,2011年4月7日於香港蘇富比拍賣,編號57。第四件為大維德爵士收藏,現藏倫敦大英博物館,見 Margaret Medley,《Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares》,倫敦,1966年,編號A740。與大維德爵士收藏本為一對的一件1968年10月15日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣,編號108,後轉入茉琳琵金頓珍藏,2017年4月4日在香港蘇富比易手,編號2。


趙從衍收藏有一相近作例,1995年10月31日於香港蘇富比拍賣,編號387。另一件源自東京戶栗美術館,2004年6月9日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣,編號22。