Lot description
明宣德 青花折枝花卉瑞果紋葵口盌 PROVENANCE 1. Collection of the Manno Museum, Osaka, Japan 2. Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 952 3. Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 1856 EXHIBITED AND LITERATURE Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, The Manno Art Museum, Osaka, 1988, pl. 113 The interior of the shallow widely-flaring conical bowl is painted in rich blue tones with a medallion enclosing a fruiting and flowering peach below individual sprays of lotus, camellia, chrysanthemum and other flowers around the lobed rim. The exterior is painted with fruiting sprays of grapes, pomegranate, longyan, peach, persimmon and lychee above individual floral sprays and a classic scroll around the foot. The base is inscribed with a six character reign mark in underglaze blue within a double circle. Similar examples from important public and private collections have been published, including one in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 159, no. 151; two in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, one is illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Period Porcelain, Taipei, 1980, pl. 36, the other in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, p. 178-179, pl. 62; one in the Shanghai Museum of Art, illustrated by Lu Minghua in Mingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, fig. 3-34; one in the Capital Museum, Beijing and illustrated in Shoudu Bowuguan cangci xuan, Beijing, 1991, pl. 97. Compare also with bowls of this pattern sold at auction, one from the Jingguangtang collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 567; from the Ira and Nancy Koger collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 27 November 1990, lot 6; and a bowl formerly in the Meiyintang Collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 October 2011, lot 12. 款識：「大明宣德年製」 來源 1. 日本大阪萬野美術館收藏 2. 香港佳士得，2004年4月26日，編號952 3. 香港佳士得，2010年5月31日，編號1856 展覽及出版 《萬野コレクション撰集》，日本萬野美術館，大阪，1988年，圖版113 盌敞口，呈六瓣葵口式，斗笠形，斜腹，圈足。全器內外紋飾疏朗而飽滿，外壁裝飾兩重紋樣，上為六組折枝瑞果紋，下為六組折枝花卉紋，交錯佈置，內壁口沿綴飾十二式花果紋，下承六組折枝花卉紋與外壁紋飾相對應，碗心則是繪以折枝壽桃紋。胎質細膩堅致，釉汁瑩潤亮青，底落青花「大明宣德年製」六字雙行楷書款，底部淺圈足，胎骨細膩，露胎處微微泛黃，撫之光潤如玉。樸拙蒼健，古意盎然。 祥花瑞果是永宣青花最為經典的紋飾，本品涵括了所見的主要品類，祥花如菊花、牡丹、蓮花、茶花，瑞果如蟠桃、枇杷、荔枝、石榴、葡萄、櫻桃。其繪畫寫實逼真，諸花妍放生姿，眾果飽滿誘人，充分借鑒國畫的筆墨意韻，得其法度，勾、勒、點、染諸法，運用皆宜。線條粗細並用，青料濃淡兼施，從而令畫面富具蒼翠欲滴的意趣，透出凝重雄渾之美。 宣德青花盌，《清檔》中或稱「宣窯青花白地葵花大鐃碗」及「宣窯青花白地葵瓣鐃碗」，如乾隆元年「七月十三日，司庫劉山久來說太監胡世傑交宣窯青花白地葵花大鐃碗十六件隨錦匣兩件」；乾隆四年三月二十一日，「七品首領薩木哈，催總白世秀來說首領開其裡交……宣窯青花白地葵瓣鐃碗一件……傳旨：著認看等次。欽此。」 本品式樣為宣德御瓷斗笠碗極為珍罕之款，近似例見諸於世界著名博物館及私人收藏。參閱《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系──青花釉裡紅（上）》，香港，2000年，圖151。台北國立故宮博物院藏二例，分別錄於《明宣德瓷器特展目錄》，1980年，圖版36；及版《明代宣德官窯菁華特展圖錄》，1998年，圖版62。上海博物館藏一例，載於陸明華，《上海博物館藏品大系：明代官窯瓷器》，上海，2007年，圖版3-34。靜觀堂藏一例，售於香港佳士得，1989年1月17日，編號567；Koger伉儷舊藏一例，紐約蘇富比，1990年11月27日，編號6；玫茵堂舊藏，拍賣於香港蘇富比2011年10月5日，編號12。
