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清康熙 青花仕女遊園圖碗 青花「大明成化年製」楷書款

Provenance 來源:
Mrs Walter Sedgwick Collection (1883-1967)
Sotheby's London, 1 November 1965, lot 178
Hans Goldstein collection and thence by descent

Walter Sedgwick夫人(1883-1967)舊藏
倫敦蘇富比，1965年11月1日，拍品178
Hans Goldstein舊藏，並由家族繼承

Published and Illustrated 出版:
S.Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch'ing Dynasty (1622-1912), London, 1971, pl.XVI, no.2

The present lot is an excellent example of very fine Kangxi period 'Ming-style' blue and white porcelain. The rich deep cobalt blue tones achieved on this bowl, as well as the style of design and composition were clearly inspired by similar figural blue and white pieces from the early Ming dynasty. This includes decorative elements such as the continuous scene of a terraced courtyard, with billowing clouds enveloping areas of the design, and the extremely precise and detailed rendering of figures. Compare a Kangxi period bowl, apocryphal Xuande mark with a very similar scene, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Hsuan-te Ware I, Taipei, 2000, p.53, fig.46.

The illustration of court ladies or celestial maidens in garden or courtyard settings was frequently produced in the early Ming, and was particularly favoured during the Xuande period. Examples of blue and white bowls, Xuande mark and period, with drawings also of ladies on a night excursion are in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei: see two bowls, each decorated with an attendant holding a lantern, lighting the way for her mistress in a deer-drawn carriage, illustrated in ibid., pp.244-247, nos.92 and 93. These type of bowls would have been the prototype for the present bowl. There are however, discernable stylistic differences between the Ming and Qing versions, with the latter's clouds executed with a more 'pencilled' effect and the ladies drawn with more pointed and angular faces, though the overall aesthetic remains similar.

Compare with a rare blue and white bowl, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period, of very similar painting style, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (I), Beijing, 2010, p.75, no.65.

See a related blue and white bowl, Kangxi mark and period, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2015, lot 3644.

此器青花繪《仕女遊園圖》，其造型、紋飾明顯受明代人物圖題材所影響，即所謂的「官仿官」，其青花發色青翠，富有層次。國立故宮博物院藏一件康熙仿宣德青花仕女秉燭夜遊圖碗可作比較，見《故宮藏瓷大系宣德之部：上》，台北，2000年，頁53，圖46。明宣德時期以仕女題材最為常見，參考兩件明宣德帶款例子，見同上，頁244-247，編號92及93。類似於本器的康熙青花作品採納了明代青花器上的畫風，但繪畫技藝較為工細，層次較豐富。

再參考一件故宮博物院藏康熙帶款的青花碗，繪畫風格與本器相似，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：青花釉裏紅（上）》，北京，2010年，頁75，編號65。

另看一件康熙帶款青花碗，售於香港蘇富比，2015年4月7日，編號3644。