Lot 376 明宣德 青花折枝瑞果紋大骰子盌 | A Rare and Large Chinese Blue and White Porcelain 'Fruit and Flower' Bowl, Xuande Mark and Period

明宣德 青花折枝瑞果紋大骰子盌 | A Rare and Large Chinese Blue and White Porcelain 'Fruit and Flower' Bowl, Xuande Mark and Period

Xuande Mark and Period (1426-1435)

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$40,000 - $60,000

Diameter 12 x height 4 1/4 in., 30.5 x 10.8 cm.

Overall good visual condition, suffused with glaze craquelures, moderate wears and abrasions as its typical, a few small chips or firing imperfections to the interior, the matted surface possibly due to the acid wash, which leave a trace of chemical smell, no additional damage or restoration found under blacklight.

Heavily potted and thick-walled, the exterior decorated with six groups of fruit sprays, comprising pomegranate, longan, grape, persimmon, loquat and peach above a band of lotus petals, six flower sprays decorated below, all encapsulated within a double-lined border, a horizontal six-character Xuande mark inscribed just beneath the rim, with fitted cloth box.
Note:
The present large bowl exemplifies the artistic and technical achievements of the Xuande reign (1426-1435), widely regarded as the golden age of Ming blue and white porcelain.
Potted from fine Jingdezhen kaolin. The decoration is painted in the celebrated Sumaliqing cobalt imported from Persia via the Maritime Silk Road. Its low manganese and high iron content yields rich sapphire tones, soft diffusion, and the distinctive silvery-black crystallization.
The fruit-spray motif derives from late Yuan blue and white porcelain. After the establishment of the Jingdezhen imperial kilns, this tradition was refined into standardized court designs. By the Xuande period, the motif had grown more restrained: individually rendered auspicious fruit sprays set against generous reserved space, echoing literati painting aesthetics. A related example is the underglaze-blue pomegranate dish exhibited in Blue and White Porcelain from the Yuan and Early Ming Dynasties, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2024, no. 7.
The present bowl is notable for its exceptionally rare arrangement of six fruit sprays evenly spaced around the exterior: pomegranate (fertility and lineage), peach (longevity), and persimmon (prosperity), together conveying wishes for abundance and enduring fortune.
Comparable examples are rare in museum collections: a slightly smaller bowl with the same six-fruit arrangement, formerly in the Qing imperial collection, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (故瓷016856N000000000); others are held by the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution (F1952.6a-b), and the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection (PDF, B.658). A related bowl from the Tianminlou Collection sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, Selected Imperial Ceramics from the Tianminlou Collection, 2 April 2019, lot 5.
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宣德是明代青花瓷器的黃金時代。本盌體型巨大，以景德鎮高嶺土精製而成，釉面瑩潤，外壁書六字宣德年款，清晰明艷，蘇麻離青鈷料的典型特徵。蘇料含錳低而含鉄高，發色濃鬱，釉料積聚處形成銀黑色鏽斑，有水墨畫的意境。
花果紋承襲元代晚期青花紋飾傳統，倫敦大英博物館藏元代青花瓜果紋大盤（編號 1951,1012.1）為代表範例。明初景德鎮御窯廠設立後，這種裝飾紋樣演變爲標準化的宮廷樣式。至宣德，更為精煉含蓄，有別於元代的滿密繁縟，佈局於大面積留白。
本盌出自北京翰海96年秋拍，當時，這家背靠北京文物商店的拍賣行資歷雄厚，庫存的數量和質量深不可測。
傳世所見與本品相近者，多藏於各大博物館：臺北故宮有一件略小（故瓷016856N000000000），六字宣德年款同樣位於石榴紋之上。美國華盛頓國立亞洲藝術博物館（編號 F1952.6a-b）和倫敦大英博物館大衛德爵士舊藏（編號 PDF, B.658）也很相似。
私人收藏，參見香港蘇富比2019年4月2日《天民樓藏御瓷選萃》專場第五號。
Property from a Private Florida Collection.
Provenance:
Hanhai Auction, Beijing, November 16, 1996, lot 1297.
Property from a Private Florida Collection.
來源：
北京翰海拍賣，1996年秋拍11月16日中國古董珍玩專場編號1297。
佛羅里達州私人收藏。
以下内容由AI翻译：
【名称】
明宣德 青花折枝瑞果紋大骰子盌
【年代】
宣德（1426-1435）
【描述】
厚重且厚壁，外壁装饰有六组果实图案，包括石榴、龙眼、葡萄、柿子、枇杷和桃子，下方有一圈莲花瓣，六个花卉图案装饰在下方，所有图案均被双线边框包围，口沿下方书有横向六字宣德款，配有布盒。
【品相】
整体视觉状况良好，釉面有裂纹，有典型的磨损和划痕，内壁有几个小缺损或烧制缺陷，表面可能因酸洗而变得暗淡，并留下化学气味，在黑光灯（紫外线）下未发现其他损坏或修复痕迹。