A FINE BLUE-GLAZED BOWL AND COVER MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG | 清雍正 霽藍釉天雞鈕蓋盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Replica Shoes 's Hong Kong, 27th April 2003, lot 166.

An East Asian private collection.

Replica Shoes 's Hong Kong, 5th April 2017, lot 3632.

香港蘇富比2003年4月27日，編號166

東亞私人收藏

香港蘇富比2017年4月5日，編號3632

This bowl and cover is an exceptional example of the technical perfection achieved by craftsmen working at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period. As with many Yongzheng period monochrome wares, this piece displays the prevailing interest in archaism, as evidenced in its shape, a reinterpretation of the celebrated wares of the Xuande reign, and the bird-shaped finial on the cover, which echoes the Chinese bronze age. For the prototype of this piece, see four blue and white bowls with Xuande marks and of the period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. nos 50-53. A closely related bowl and cover was sold in these rooms, 8th October 2010, lo 2636; and another was sold at Christie’s London, 18th June 2002, lot 69. See also three bowls of this shape but lacking the cover, sold in these rooms, one, 31st October 1995, lot 421, and the other two, 11th April 2008, lots 2908 and 2909.

Bowls of similar form are also known decorated in white slip with fish against a blue ground, such as a Yongzheng mark and period example, with its matching cover, in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu/Catalogue of World’s Ceramics, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1956, pl. 56; another in the collections of George de Menasce, Pierre de Menasce and F. Gordon Morrill, sold in these rooms, 20th May 1987, lot 586; and a third, sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2005, lot 309.

See also a Yongzheng mark and period bowl of this shape, but covered overall in a yellow glaze and incised on the sides with dragons, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society Jubilee exhibition The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, cat. no. 244, and sold at Christie’s London, 15th July 1981, lot 44.

霽藍釉蓋盌，乃雍正御窰巧技臻絕之作，取材明代宣德朝器制，仿古器形施以單色瓷，蓋頂天雞鈕，呼應古青銅器，尚古文雅。蓋盌原型可參考台北故宮博物院藏四件宣德窰青花作例，錄於《明宣德瓷器特展目錄》，台北，1998年，編號50-53。 2010年10月8日，香港蘇富比售出一件近類蓋盌，編號2636；另一例售於倫敦佳士得2002年6月18日，編號69。參考三件此類瓷盌，蓋已佚失，其一於香港蘇富比1995年10月31日售出，編號421，另二例售於2008年4月11日，編號2908、2909。

類同瓷盌亦見藍地白魚紋飾者，如檀香山藝術博物館藏一件雍正窰蓋盌，載於《世界陶磁全集》，卷12，東京，1956年，圖版56；另一件蓋盌曾為 George de Menasce、Pierre de Menasce 與 F. Gordon Morrill 遞藏，1987年5月20日售於香港蘇富比，編號586；還有一例售於倫敦蘇富比2005年11月9日，編號309。

比較一件雍正黃釉劃龍紋盌，曾展出於東方陶瓷學會，《The Ceramic Art of China》，倫敦，1971年，編號244，1981年7月15日售於倫敦佳士得，編號44。