Lot 111 清嘉慶 青花禦題詩文海棠茶托（附錦盒） | A Chinese blue and white quatrefoil-rim saucer with imperial poem, Jiaqing period, Qing dynasty

清嘉慶 青花禦題詩文海棠茶托（附錦盒） | A Chinese blue and white quatrefoil-rim saucer with imperial poem, Jiaqing period, Qing dynasty

Jiaqing period, Qing dynasty

USD 100

$100 - $200

H: 7/8, W: 6 1/4, D: 4 3/4 in. (H: 2.2, W: 15.9, D: 12.1 cm.)

Overall good condition.

總體品相良好

Inscribed with poem to front about the joys of imperial tea composed by the Jiaqing Emperor and six-character Jiaqing mark to underside. Sold with a brocade box.
This lot is a crabapple shaped tea tray with shallow sides, a flat base, and four short rectangular feet. Both the interior and the exterior are painted in underglaze blue with scrolling floral motifs. The center bears a five character regulated verse by the Jiaqing Emperor called “Tea Brewing Poem:”
The first tribute batch of fine tea in this season.
To inspire my poetry, I also need round tea cakes.
I add a fresh flame to the bamboo stove;
The stone kettle boils with a startling rush.
Fish eye and crab eye bubbles slowly rise,
Banner and spear leaf tips unfurl in the shadows.
One cup of this pure delight is enough;
The spring vessel wards off the lingering chill.
After the poem comes the date: “imperially composed in the middle ten days of the tenth lunar month of the dingsi year of the Jiaqing reign” (1797), which is followed by the square seals “Jia” and “Qing.” The base is inscribed with a six character underglaze blue seal mark reading “Da Qing Jiaqing Nian Zhi” (Made in the Jiaqing reign of the Great Qing).
The dating indicates that the poem was written in 1797, the second year of the Jiaqing era. At that time, the powerful minister Heshen dominated the court, the bureaucracy was increasingly corrupt, and social tensions were escalating. The Jiaqing Emperor was keenly aware of these problems but felt powerless to address them; the Qing Empire, though still at its zenith, had already begun to show early signs of decline.
This Jiaqing marked blue and white imperial poem crabapple tea tray uses the poem itself as decoration, deliberately rejecting the concrete imagery of traditional porcelain design in favor of lyrical beauty and literary refinement. It elevates the object beyond mere functionality and craftsmanship, transforming it into a vessel that embodies the emperor’s literary thoughts and the refined taste of the scholar. The addition of an imperial poem makes this scholar’s object not only a piece of royal luxury, but also an article of elegant bookishness. This creates the perfect fusion of imperial and literati aesthetics. This truly is a rare and exquisite imperial scholarly object.
See below references for similar items: Palace Museum, Beijing, accession number Gu 00161123 6/85 (see fig.13). Sotheby’s Hong Kong, May 2025, lot 3635 (hammer price HKD 533,400, RMB 494,781 or USD $68,060).
此件拍品海棠型，器壁較短淺。平底，底呈四條長形小足。內外皆繪青花纏枝花卉紋，中心題嘉慶五言《烹茶詩》：“佳茗頭綱貢，澆詩必月團。竹爐添活火，石銚沸驚湍。魚蟹眼徐揚，旗槍影細攢。一甌清興足，春盎避清寒。嘉慶丁巳小春月之中瀚禦制。鈐印：嘉；慶。底書“大清嘉慶年制”六字青花篆書款。
從落款看，詩作于1797年（嘉慶二年），是嘉慶帝繼位的第二年，當時朝內和珅擅權，官僚機構日益腐朽，社會矛盾逐步激化。嘉慶帝對此深有感觸，但也無能爲力，處于巔峰狀態的大清帝國已漸露下行的光景。
這只嘉慶款青花禦題詩海棠茶托，以詩文爲紋飾的設計，摒弃了傳統瓷器紋飾的具象描摹，轉而追求意境之美、文氣之韵，讓器物超越了實用與工藝的層面，成爲承載皇家文思、彰顯文人意趣的載體。禦題詩文的加持，更讓這件文房洗兼具皇家御用的尊貴與文人書卷的雅致，兼具了皇家與文人審美在文房器上的完美融合，是一件不可多得的禦制文房精品。
相似藏品可參閱：故宮博物院館藏，編號故00161123-6/85（見圖13）。蘇富比拍賣2025年05月香港拍賣，編號3635（落錘價HKD 533,400，RMB 494,781）。
**Provenance**
From Mr. Yu of Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
加利福尼亞州蘭喬帕洛斯弗迪斯Yu先生收藏。
以下内容由AI翻译：
【名称】
清嘉慶 青花禦題詩文海棠茶托（附錦盒）
【年代】
清嘉庆
【品相】
Overall good condition.
總體品相良好