AN EXTREMELY RARE MING CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
明萬曆^^^剔红龍鳳戲珠紋長方蓋盒^^^填金《大明萬曆壬辰年製》楷書款

WANLI RENCHEN CYCLICAL DATE, CORRESPONDING TO 1592 AND OF THE PERIOD

細節
明萬曆^^^剔红龍鳳戲珠紋長方蓋盒^^^填金《大明萬曆壬辰年製》楷書款

盒倭角長方形,平蓋,隨形圈足。通體錦地上雕朱漆。蓋面飾龍鳳戲珠紋,下雕海水江崖。盒壁和蓋邊四周雕纏枝花卉紋,足牆環回紋一周。盒內和底髹黑漆,底刀刻填金《大明萬曆壬辰年製》楷書款。

漆器落年號款的做法,始於永樂朝,一般是在器底針刻六字款。宣德時期,六字年號款多刻於器底或側面,再填金料,後期的明代器物亦以此為規範。但萬曆後期,如此器所刻的八字干支年號款漸趨普遍。在已發表的萬曆漆器中,最早的干支年號為「乙酉」,即1585年,其他干支則以十六世紀九十年代為多,如此器落「壬辰」(即1592年)款者即為一例。

北京故宮博物院藏一件與此器相同的長方盒【圖一】,見2006年香港出版故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《元明漆器》,207頁,圖版164號。

此器源自李汝寬家族收藏,2008年12月3日於香港佳士得李氏家族重要漆器珍藏專拍,拍品2134號。
來源
The Lee Family Collection
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2134
展覽
The Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, Dragon and Phoenix, Chinese Lacquer Ware, The Lee Family Collection, Catalogue, no. 63
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990/91
The Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya, Japan, 1991, Chinese Lacquerware, Catalogue, no. 66

榮譽呈獻

Angela Kung
Angela Kung

查閱狀況報告或聯絡我們查詢更多拍品資料

登入
瀏覽狀況報告

拍品專文

An identical rectangular 'dragon and phoenix' box, also inscribed with a Wanli cyclical Renchen date, is in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 207, no. 164.

The custom of applying reign marks to lacquer wares appears to have begun in the Yongle reign, when six-character reign marks were sometimes scratched, with the use of a fine point, into the base of lacquer items. Reign marks of the Xuande reign set the standard for future Ming dynasty reigns, being composed of six characters boldly carved into the base or side and filled with gold. However, during the latter half of the Wanli reign the use of eight-character cyclical marks, like the mark on the current box, became popular. The earliest published Wanli cyclical date on a lacquer item is equivalent to AD 1585, but the majority of lacquer wares bearing cyclical marks date to the 1590's. A number of pieces bear the yiwei date, corresponding to AD 1595, as seen on a related polychrome lacquer rectangular box sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1563.

更多來自 中國宮廷御製藝術精品

查看全部
查看全部