Shang Shan Tang by ACC Art Books

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics 20 Items

Fall 2019

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Shang Shan Tang

類三足爐多見尺寸較小者，見一紫斑稍淡例，胎薄體輕，器身大面積使用紫斑，色彩豔麗。此

爐受商周陶鬲造型影響，圓腹、唇口外翻，

。另一例為大英博物館藏大維德基金會。

Sky-blue glazed Li-type tripod censer with rose-purple splashes, Jun Ware Yuzhou, Henan Province

northern Song to Jin Dynasty (960-1234)

MD 10.5 cm (4 1/16 in.)

H. 9 cm (3 1/2 in.)

來源：

1. 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦，編號C3755

2. 北美十面靈璧山居，美國，編號EK314

3. 北京保利，《微有蘭若—袖裏乾坤掌上珍玩專場》，2018年12 月08日，編號5312

出版：

1. 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦

2. 康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷選集》，第一卷，倫敦，1994年，第223頁，編號394

3. 香港藝術館，宋氏陶瓷藏品，香港，1994年，編號42，香爐，北宋時期

展覽：

埃斯肯納齊，倫敦

The censer is influenced by the style of pottery Li of Shang and Zhou dynasties, featured with a globular belly, an everted rim, a thin and light body, splashed with bright purple patches. Such kind of tripod censer is commonly in smaller size, such as the one with lighter purple splashes illustrated by John ayers in Chinese Ceramics in The Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, Fig. a37. another example is in the British Museum Collection from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese art.

PRovenanCe:

1. eskenazi, London, no. C3755.

2. The Ten-views Lingbi Rock Retreat, USa, no. eK314.

3. Poly auction Beijing, Greatness in miniature - exquisite selection of playthings, Dec 8, 2018, lot. 5312.

LITeRaTURe:

1. eskenazi, London.

2. Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics From The Meiyintang Collection, volume 1, London, 1994, p. 223, no. 394.

3. Hong Kong Museum of art, Song Ceramics From The Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 42, for a smaller censer dated to the northern Song period.

eXHIBITIon: eskenazi, London.

參閱：大英博物館藏大維德基金會

Reference:

The British Museum, from the collection of Percival David Foundation of Chinese art

一相似的例子為大維德爵士舊藏，載於畢宗陶，

盞斂口，弧腹，圈足。通體施天藍釉，釉窯名品。傳世的同類小盞可參照故宮博物院藏一紫斑，造型雋秀，盈盈可握。此類紫斑小盞為鈞部份呈米黃邊，器壁內外共有四處不規則的玫瑰及足處，底部施一滴釉，整體釉色亮麗，口沿例，載於 1996

年出版故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《兩宋瓷器（上）》，

Sky-blue glazed small cup with purple splashes, Jun Ware

Yuzhou, Henan Province

northern Song to Jin Dynasty (960-1234)

MD 8.5 cm (3 1/4 in.)

Wt. 114 g

The small cup has a contracted mouth and a curved belly, supported by a ring foot. It is covered overall with sky-blue glaze, with the bottom applied with a drop of glaze. The mouth is in a hue of beige, and there are four irregular rose-purple spots inside and outside the wall. It is featured with bright glaze, small and exquisite shape. This kind of small cup with purple splashes is famous among Jun wares. a small cup of the same kind can be found is in the collection of the Palace Museum, illustrated in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), from The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 246, pl. 222. another similar example is from the collection of Sir Percival David, illustrated in Stacey Pierson, Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration, London, 2003, p. 61, fig. 20.

來源：

1. 倫敦蘇富比，《雅士收藏專場》，2003年6月12日，編號107 2. 覺是軒，倫敦

PRovenanCe:

1. Sotheby’s London, Property of a Gentleman, 12 June, 2003, lot 107.

2. Priestley & Ferraro, London.

參閱：北京故宮博物院

Reference: The Palace Museum

年舉辦《南宋の青磁》展耳瓶，其中一件藏於京都陽明文庫，被列為日本覽中，曾展出多件日本知名收藏的龍泉鳳耳或鯱「重要文化財」的器物與此器甚為相似。

洗口，長頸，折肩，直腹，平底，圈足。頸龍泉大窯典型器物。此瓶深受日本藏家所青睞。獸。全器通施梅子青釉，胎質細膩，肥潤。南宋部置一對鯱耳，鯱，日本地區用語，稱之為水中東京根津美術館

Celadon glazed bottle with Shachihoko-shaped handles, Longquan Ware

Longquan, Zhejiang Province

Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)

H. 27 cm (10 9/16 in.)

Wt. 1176 g

來源：

1. 日本重要私人收藏

2. 香港佳士得，《古今專場》，2018年10月4日，編號0030

The bottle has a washer-shaped mouth, a long neck, an everted shoulder, a straight belly, a flat bottom and a ring foot. The neck is flanked by a pair of shachihoko-shaped handles. Shachihoko is a Japanese word for beast in the water. The bottle is covered overall with plum green glaze, fine and lustrous. It is a typical Longquan Dayao Ware in the Southern Song dynasty. This bottle was deeply favored by Japanese collectors. In the exhibition "Heavenly Blues: Southern Song Celadons" held by the nezu Museum of Tokyo in 2010, there are many Longquan bottles with phoenix-shaped or shachihoko-shaped handles. among them, a vase collected in the Youmei Bunko Museum of Kyoto and listed as ‘important cultural properties’ of Japan, is very similar to this one.

PRovenanCe:

1. Private collection, Japan.

2. Christie’s Hong Kong, The Pavilion Sale - Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, oct 4, 2018, lot. 0030.

參閱：

1. 靜嘉堂文庫美術館

2. 和泉市久保紀念美術館重要文化財

3. 陽明文庫重要文化財

Reference:

1. Seikado Bunko art Museum

2. Kuboso Memorial Museum of arts, Izumi, Important cultural properties

3. Yomei Bunko, Important cultural properties

盤呈十五瓣菊花狀。斜淺腹，內底闊平，小圈足。釉色呈橄欖綠，玻璃釉感，胎灰白，細密。隔。此類花口式器物，口沿多薄削，不易保存，印水波配九隻遊魚及海螺；壁、底間以鋸齒紋相採用模印技法裝飾，內壁印十五組蓮瓣紋，內底完美者稀少，應為北宋晚期製品。

Celadon glazed lobed plate stamped with wave, fish and conch design, Yaozhou Ware Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

MD. 14.8 cm (5 3/4 in.)

來源：

1. 紐約蘇富比，2003年9月17日，編號66

2. 埃斯肯納齊，倫敦

3. 北美十面靈璧山居，編號EK176

4. 北京保利，《佞宋—十面靈璧山居暨東瀛雅蓄宋元清翫專場》， 2019年6月5日，編號5454

展覽：

借展予芝加哥藝術博物館

出版：

1. 康蕊君，《天青-冬青-月白：耀州窯陶瓷五百年》，《文物天地》，國家文物局主管，中國文物報主辦，2019年9月，頁95，編號41

2. 柯玫瑰，《耀州青瓷：瑩澈精巧如琢玉》，《中國文物報》， 2019年9月3日，第5版，編號18

3. 講談社，《耀州窯：比類なき青磁のかがやき》，日本東京， 2019年，編號056

The plate is in the shape of a fifteen-petal chrysanthemum, with slanting shallow belly, flat inner bottom and small ring foot. The fine grey-white body is covered with vitreous olive green glaze. It is stamped with design of fifteen lotus petals on the inner wall, and design of nine fish and conch in the waves on the inner bottom; the wall and bottom is separated by zigzag pattern. This kind of lobed ware often has thin rim and is hard to preserve, therefore perfect ones are very rare. This one is deemed to be made in the late northern Song dynasty.

PRovenanCe:

1. Sotheby’s new York, September 17, 2003, lot 66.

2. eskenazi, London.

3. Ten-views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection, no. eK176, north america.

4. Poly auction Beijing, Song Enthusiasm The Ten-Views Lingbi Rock Retreat And Japanese Collection Of Song And Yuan Playthings, June 5, 2019, lot 5454.

eXHIBITeD: on loan: the art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

LITeRaTURe:

1. Regina Krahl, Sky Blue – Winter Green – Moon White: Five Hundred Years of Excellence at Yaozhou, Cultural Relics World, national Cultural Heritage administration, China Cultural Relics news, 2019.9, p. 95, no. 41.

2. Rose Kerr, The Ceramics of Yaozhou: Luminous Colours of Celadon, China Cultural Relics News, 2019.9.3, p. 5, no. 18.

3. Koudannsha, Yaozhou Ware: China’s Outstanding Carved Celadon, Tokyo, Japan, 2019, no. 056.

產，可見日本澀穀松濤美術館藏一例朱漆盞托。

北宋．九六

光美術館藏有一件近似的紫定葵口盤，著錄於《出光美術館品圖錄：中國陶磁》，東京，

與本品同類，可見清宮舊藏一例紫定盞托，錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：兩宋瓷器（上）》， 1996 年，第 96 頁，圖

盞托通體施柿紅釉，器型中空，上下通透，圈足無釉，露胎，潔白堅致。柿紅釉為宋代紫定器皿之稱謂。

。據考，紫定為模仿漢代漆器而生

Persimmon-red glazed saucer, Ding Ware Quyang, Hebei Province

northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

MD. 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.)

DS. 12 cm (4 11/16 in.)

H. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)

Wt. 128 g

來源：

臺灣藏家

87 。東京出

The saucer is covered overall with persimmon-red glaze, except the ring foot exposed with white and compact body. The upper and lower part is penetrated through. ‘Persimmonred glaze’ a name for ziding ware of the Song dynasty. a ziding saucer of the same type, originally collected in the Qing palace, is illustrated in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, from The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1996, pl. 87. a similar ziding plate with mallow-shaped mouth in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of arts, Tokyo, is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 525. according to research, ziding was modeled after lacquer wares of the Han dynasty; see a lacquered saucer collected in the Shoto Museum of art of Japan.

PRovenanCe: Private collection, Taiwan.

侈口，弧腹，平足，足外牆挺直，底心刻有釉面潤白。「盈」字款為唐代邢窯為宮廷定燒的「盈」字款。細白瓷，胎細，薄而堅，經打磨，器物標記，即唐朝宮內百寶大盈庫的簡稱。

White

glazed small cup with inscription ‘Ying’, Xing

Ware

Xingtai, Hebei Province

Tang Dynasty (618-907)

MD. 16 cm (6 1/4 in.)

Wt. 283 g

來源：

1. 香港佳士得，1995年5月1日，編號633

2. 紐約蘇富比，《中國藝術作品專場》，2005年9月21日22日

3. 香港蘇富比，《中國藝術品包括趙從衍家族收藏藝術珍品專場》， 2017年11月30日-12月1日，編號506

The small cup has a flared mouth, a curved belly, a flat foot with straight wall, a bottom carved with Chinese character ‘Ying’. The fine body is thin and tight, well polished, covered with lustrous white glaze. The inscription ‘Ying’ is a mark of Xing ware fired for the Tang court, which is an abbreviation of the ‘Bai Bao Da Ying’ Treasury of the Tang dynasty.

PRovenanCe:

1. Christie’s Hong Kong, May 1, 1995, lot 633.

2. Sotheby’s new York, Important Chinese Art, 2005.9.21-22.

3. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Chinese Art including Selected Works of Art from the T.Y. Chao Family Collection, november 30-December 01, 2017, lot 506.

參閱：北京故宮博物院

Reference: The Palace Museum

山西長治

側臥童女，柳葉眉，丹鳳眼，櫻桃小嘴，雙白地黑花折枝花卉臥嬰枕。還有一例大英博物館結合。與其相近兩例一例藏於陝西曆史博物館，鳥，蝴蝶飛舞。女嬰雕塑生動，藝術與繪畫巧妙身著褐底黑花衣裳，衣褶自然，枕面開光繪以花手枕於頭下，髮絲清晰，臉頰肥潤，神態悠然。收藏白地黑花「風花雪月」臥嬰枕。

Porcelain child-shaped pillow with reddish-brown design of flower, bird and butterfly, Cizhou Ware System, Changzhi Ware

Changzhi, Shanxi Province

Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)

L. 43 cm (16 7/8 in.)

Wt. 3050 g

來源：

1. 戴潤齋，紐約

2. 亞瑟．M．賽克勒（1913-1987），紐約

3. 伊麗莎白．A．賽克勒，紐約

The girl, lying on the side with both hands under the head, has arched eyebrows, smiled eyes, a cherry like mouth, fat cheeks, clear hairs, and a leisure look. She wears a cloth with black flower on brown ground, with natural pleats. The top of the pillow is painted with design of flower, bird and butterfly in reserved panel. The figurine is vivid, skillfully combining sculpture art with painting. There are two similar examples: white glazed pillow in the shape of a lying baby with black design of flower sprays, collected in the Shaanxi History Museum; and white glazed pillow in the shaped of a lying baby with design of ‘Feng Hua Xue Yue’ collected in the British Museum.

PRovenanCe:

1. J. T. Tai & Co., new York.

2. arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), new York.

3. elizabeth a Sackler, new York.

參閱：陝西曆史博物館

Reference: Shaanxi History Museum