A rare blue and white moulded 'dragon' stem cup, Yuan dynasty | 元　青花模印趕珠雲龍紋高足盃

Inki: Hai, Wan, Taku [Drinking Vessels: Cups, bowls and saucers], Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Osaka, 1989, cat. no. 265.

Yuan dynasty blue and white stem cups of this type are held in important museums and private collections; see an example in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 12; another in the British Museum, London (accession no. 1975,1028.4); and two further examples from the collections of Mrs Otto Harriman and Lord Cunliffe, respectively, included in the exhibition Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: 14th to 19th Centuries, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1953-4, cat. nos 11 and 12. 

For auction examples, see one formerly in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III (1905-1978), first sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 25th October 1993, lot 718, and again in these rooms, 3rd April 2019, lot 106; another sold in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 739 and illustrated in Ye Peilan, Yuan dai ciqi [Yuan dynasty porcelain], Beijing, 1998, pl. 140; a third with illustrious provenance from the collections of R.H.R. Palmer, Tsui Museum of Art, Meiyintang, sold several times at auction and in these rooms, 9th October 2012, lot 17, and subsequently entered the Ten-views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection. Another taller example from the Ise Collection, recently sold in these rooms, 9th September 2025, lot 5038.

See also related excavated examples, including a 'dragon' and three 'phoenix' stem bowls unearthed from a Yuan city site in Inner Mongolia, illustrated in Chen Yongzhi ed., Porcelain Unearthed from Jininglu Ancient City Site in Inner Mongolia, Beijing, 2004, pls 42-44 and 46, and in situ, p. 12; another excavated from the tomb of Wang Xingzu, datable to the 4th year of Hongwu (1371), and now preserved in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 33; and a further example preserved in the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, included in the exhibition Yuan and Ming Blue and White Ware from Jiangxi, Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Nanchang, 2002, cat. no. 15.

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《飲器：杯．碗．托》，和泉市久保惣記念美術館，大阪，1989年，編號265

相類元代高足盃見於重要公私收藏。北京故宮博物院藏一例，收錄於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅（上）》，上海，2000年，圖版12；大英博物館亦藏一例（館藏編號：1975,1028.4）；另見兩例，分別為 Otto Harriman 夫人及 英國 Cunliffe 肯里夫勛爵舊藏，展覽並收錄於《Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: 14th to 19th Centuries》，東方陶瓷學會，倫敦，1953-4年，編號11及12。拍賣類例可參考瓊肯三世舊藏一例，先售於香港佳士得1993年10月25日，編號718，再售於香港蘇富比2019年4月3日，編號106。另一例售於香港蘇富比1996年11月5日，編號739，此例載於葉佩蘭《元代瓷器》，北京，1998年，圖版140。再比一例，經帕默、徐氏藝術館及玫茵堂遞藏，最後一度售於香港蘇富比2012年10月9號，編號17，後入藏十面靈璧山居。另一較高例，伊勢彥信舊藏，售於香港蘇富比2025年9月9日，編號5038。

另見一龍紋及三鳳紋出土例，出土於內蒙古元代古城遺址，見陳永誌編，《內蒙古集寧路古城遺址出土瓷器》，北京，2004年，圖版42-44及46及頁12。另見一例，出土於明洪武四年汪興祖墓，現藏南京博物院，載於汪慶正，《青花釉裏紅》，香港，1993年，圖版33。香港中文大學文物館亦藏一例，載於《江西元明青花瓷》，江西省博物館，南昌，2002年，編號15。