A fine and rare yellow-ground and underglaze-blue 'gardenia' dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi | 明弘治　黃地青花折枝梔子花果紋盤　《大明弘治年製》款

A Japanese private collection.

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

5th Anniversary Exhibition. All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai and the Ru Ware Kilns, Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018-19, exh. no. 91 (unillustrated).

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 1, Tokyo, 2013, no. 26.

The present piece is especially fine for its brilliant and striking combination of blue and yellow colours, as well as the bold but perfectly arranged design of flowers and fruit. For Xuande and Chenghua prototypes in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, nos. 4:43 and 6:16.

Hongzhi dishes of this design can be found in important museums and private collections; for example, see two in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], vol. II, Tokyo, 1977, pls. 72 and 73, together with their blue-and-white counterparts, pls 70 and 71; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 231, together with a Chenghua example, pl. 230, and a Zhengde example, pl. 233. Compare also a dish in the Shanghai Museum included in the exhibition Chugoku rekidai toji ten [Chinese ceramics through the ages], Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo, 1984, cat. no. 80.

From Western museum collections, compare a similar dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 16; one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, op.cit., vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 226, from the Kempe Collection; another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1674, and sold in these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 57; and a fourth example from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, included in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1966, cat. no. A740. The companion dish of the Percival David Foundation was sold in our London rooms, 15th October 1968, lot 108, and again in these rooms, 4th April 2017, lot 2, from the collection of Maureen Pilkington.

A similar dish from the T.Y. Chao collection was sold in these rooms, 31st October 1995, lot 387; and another from the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 22; and a further example from the Ise Collection, recently sold in these rooms, 9th September 2025, lot 5050.

來源

日本私人收藏

壺中居，東京

展覽

《開館5周年記念展―美のスターたち―光琳．若冲．北斎．汝窯など名品勢ぞろい》， 岡田美術館，箱根，2018-19年，展覽編號91（沒載圖）

出版

小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷1，東京，2013年，編號26

此盤青花發色亮麗，黃地瑩亮嬌嫩，繪工細膩流暢。其宣德、成化原型，可參考倫敦大英博物館藏例，見霍吉淑，《Ming Ceramics in the British Museum》，倫敦，2001年，編號4:43及6:16。 

相類作例可見於重要博物館及私人收藏。台北故宮博物院藏兩例，見《明瓷名品図録》，卷II，東京， 1977年，圖版72及73，以及青花盤例，圖版70及71。北京故宮博物院藏一例，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅（中）》 ，上海，2000 年，圖版231；另有成化例，圖版230，及正德例，圖版233。上海博物館亦藏一例，展覽於《中国歴代陶磁展》，西武美術館，東京，1984年，編號80。

美國大都會藝術博物館藏一例，見《東洋陶磁大観》，卷2，東京，1982年，彩圖版16。瑞典斯德哥爾摩東亞博物館亦見一例，原為卡爾肯普收藏，同前註，卷8，東京，1982，圖版226。玫茵堂藏一例，載於康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，卷4，倫敦，1994-2010年，編號1674，售於香港蘇富比2011年4月7日，編號57。大維德爵士收藏一對盤例，其一現貯於倫敦大英博物館，見 Margaret Medley，《Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares》，倫敦，1966年，編號A740；另一售於倫敦蘇富比1968年10月15日，編號108，後轉入琵金頓收藏，釋於香港蘇富比2017年4月4日，編號2。趙從衍舊藏一例，釋於香港蘇富比1995年10月31日，編號387。東京戶栗美術館舊藏一例，售於倫敦蘇富比2004年6月9日，編號22。伊勢彥信舊藏一盤例，最近售於香港蘇富比2025年9月9日，編號5050。