拍賣筆記 vol.78 臨宇山人：龍泉折沿洗，102.5萬美元 - Linyushanren, Longquan Celadon Washer, Sold in 2016 for 1.025m USD
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此種形式的折沿洗十分珍罕，充分呈現宋代單色釉簡練大方之美感。臺北故宮博物院館藏一件近似但尺寸稍大之例 (口徑16.8公分)，同器亦見於乾隆朝繪製之《精陶韞古》冊頁（圖一），兩者均著錄於《得佳趣-乾隆皇帝的陶瓷品味》，臺北，2012年，224-5頁，編號104。
侈口，折沿，平底，圈足。通體施青釉，惟足沿無釉。
南宋 龍泉窯青釉折沿洗
5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
成交價：美元 1,025,000
估價：美元 500,000 – 美元 700,000
拍品終止拍賣:
2016年9月15日
來源
F. Brodie Lodge伉儷珍藏; 倫敦蘇富比，1988年6月7日，拍品175號。
Robert E. Barron三世（1929-2007）珍藏，新奧爾良，路易斯安那州; 紐約佳士得， 2005年3月30日，拍品315號。
出版
G. St. G.M. Gompertz著， 《Celadon Wares》，倫敦，1968年， 編號14B。
L. Rotondo-McCord及R. D. Mowry，《Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection》， 新奧爾良，2000年，134-35頁，編號52。
L. Rotondo-McCord著， ‘Song and Jin Period Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. Robert Barron’, 載於 S. Pierson 編《Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asian 》， 倫敦，2003年， 編號22， 57頁， 圖16， 彩圖13。
千秋庭，《中國美術蒐集》，東京，2006年，58頁，編號69。
佳士得，《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，香港，2012年，168- 69頁，編號69。
展覽
倫敦東方陶瓷學會， 《The Arts of Sung Dynasty》，1960年。
新奧爾良美術館，《Heaven and Earth Seen Within》，新奧爾良美術館，2000年3月4日至5月18日；肯塔基州萊辛頓 Headley-Whitney 美術館，2000年6月29日至8月24日；俄亥俄州辛辛那提塔夫特美術館，2000年12月8日至2001年2月19日；威斯康辛州立大學麥迪遜分校Elvehjem 美術館，2001年3月9日至5月13日。
千秋庭，東京，《創立10周年記念展覽會》，2006年。
佳士得，《古韻天成：臨宇山人宋瓷珍藏展覽》，香港，2012年11月22至27日；紐約，2013年3月15至20日；倫敦，2013年5月10至14日。
常見問題：龍泉青瓷洗
什麼是龍泉青瓷洗？
龍泉青瓷洗是一種陶瓷器物，具體來說是一個淺盤狀圓形器皿，具有寬廣平坦的外翻口沿，產自南宋（1127-1279）時期的龍泉窯。這些洗具有出色的青綠色青瓷釉，是龍泉瓷器的標誌性特色。它們主要用於文人洗筆。
這件龍泉青瓷洗為何如此稀有且有價值？
這件龍泉青瓷洗被認為稀有，主要因為它的形制、保存狀況及來源。它的形狀和尺寸較為罕見，與台北故宮博物院藏品中的一件形狀相似，但尺寸略有不同。其柔和的青藍釉色極受推崇，這件青瓷洗曾多次出現在出版物和展覽中，增加了它在收藏家中的吸引力。
什麼是青瓷，為何它在中國陶瓷中如此重要？
青瓷是指一種具有柔和綠色的陶瓷釉色，顏色範圍從淡玉色到深橄欖色不等。其顏色來自釉中鐵氧化物，在低氧的還原氣氛中燒製而成。青瓷在中國陶瓷中被高度珍視，不僅因其美學吸引力，還因其與玉石的聯繫，以及與文人和宮廷文化的深厚關聯。
能否描述這件龍泉青瓷洗的具體特徵？
這件青瓷洗下部呈擴展狀，向上過渡至寬大平坦的口沿。器身覆蓋著柔和的青藍釉色，腳部未施釉。其直徑為5 ¾英寸（14.5厘米）。其中一些範例，包括這一件，邊緣有修補處，如金漆修補。
南宋時期對龍泉青瓷有何意義？
南宋時期是龍泉青瓷製作的黃金時代。由於金人入侵後，帝國宮廷遷往南方，這使得南方的窯場，如龍泉窯，獲得了更多的支持與資金投入。這促進了青瓷釉技術的精細化、器形的優雅以及單色美學的發展，這些特徵定義了南宋陶瓷的風格。
這件龍泉青瓷洗的來源是什麼？
這件青瓷洗具有良好的來源記錄，曾經經過數個著名的收藏，包括弗羅迪·洛奇（Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge）收藏、倫敦蘇富比拍賣、羅伯特·E·巴倫三世（Robert E. Barron III）收藏、紐約佳士得拍賣以及東京的千秋貞（Sen Shu Tey）收藏。
類似的龍泉青瓷洗可以在哪裡找到？
類似的青瓷洗可見於許多重要的博物館收藏中，包括台北故宮博物院、北京故宮博物院、倫敦珀西瓦爾·大衛基金會和克里夫蘭藝術博物館。類似的器物碎片也曾在大堯窯址及四川省出土。
這件龍泉青瓷洗以多少價格成交？ 這件龍泉青瓷洗在拍賣中成交價為102萬5千美元，預估價為50萬至70萬美元。
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BRUSH WASHER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
Price realised: USD 1,025,000
Estimate: USD 500,000 – USD 700,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
Closed: 15 Sep 2016
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON BRUSH WASHER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The brush washer is well potted with the lower body flaring outward from the thin foot ring before rising vertically to the broad, flat, everted rim. It is covered overall with a fine glaze of soft blue-green tone, with the exception of the foot. There is a small area of gold lacquer on the mouth rim.
5 ¾ in. (14.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
PROVENANCE
The Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge Collection; Sotheby’s London, 7 June 1988, lot 175.
The Robert E. Barron III (1929-2007) Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana; Christie’s New York, 30 March 2005, lot 315.
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
LITERATURE
G. St. G.M. Gompertz, Celadon Wares, London, 1968, no. 14B.
L. Rotondo-McCord and R. D. Mowry, Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, pp. 134-35, no. 52.
L. Rotondo-McCord, ‘Song and Jin Period Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. Robert Barron’, Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, ed. no. 22. S. Pierson, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, June 2003, p. 57, fig. 16, col. pl. 13.
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, Tokyo, 2006, p. 58, no. 69.
Christie’s, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 168-169, no. 69.
EXHIBITED
The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, 1960.
The New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, 4 March to 18 May 2000; The Headley-Whitney Museum, Kentucky, 29 June to August 24, 2000; The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 8 December 2000 to19 Feburary 2001; The Elvehjem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9 March to 13 May 2001.
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, Tokyo, 2006.
Christie’s, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, no. 69, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012, New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to14 May 2013.
This brush washer has an especially beautiful glaze, of the soft bluish tone which has traditionally been much prized by connoisseurs. Fine glaze color and texture appear to be a characteristic of the few examples of this particular form of brush washer preserved in museum collections. A slightly larger, but similarly proportioned Longquan brush washer in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum - Lung-ch’üan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1962, p. 61, pls. 18 & 18a. Another Longquan brush washer is illustrated in a leaf from a Qianlong-period album entitled Refined Ceramics of Collected Antiquity, also in the collection of the National Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Obtaining Refined Enjoyment: The Qianlong Emperor’s Taste in Ceramics, Taipei, 2012, pp. 224-25, no. 104. (Fig. 1) An even larger, but somewhat less successfully proportioned Longquan brush washer from the Qing Court Collection is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 145, no. 130. The Beijing brush washer also has a fine bluish glaze, but with some crackle reminiscent of Guan ware. Another larger vessel of this shape, but with a metal rim around its mouth, also in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated, op. cit., p. 12, no. 8. This washer, also from the Qing Court Collection, has a crackled glaze, dark body and was fired on spurs. It has therefore been attributed to the Guan kilns.
A Longquan brush washer of this form is depicted in an imperial scroll dated by inscription to the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728) in the Percival David Foundation. (Fig. 1) The scroll, entitled Guwan tu (Scroll of Antiquities) purports to depict items from the imperial collection. The washer appears to be of similar color to the present vessel and is painted with a crackled glaze.
A glaze similar to that on the current vessel can be seen on another similarly shaped washer in the Percival David Foundation. This Longquan washer has an uncrackled glaze, and a copper band has been applied to its mouth rim, probably to disguise minor damage. See Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Collection, Osaka, 1998, p. 53, no. 23. Vessels of similar shape and fine bluish glaze have also been excavated from the Dayao kiln site. See Longquan qingci yanjiu, Zhejiang xian qinggongye ting, 1989, pl. 6, no. 1. Similar Southern Song vessels have also been excavated in Sichuan province. A larger vessel and two smaller washers excavated in 1974 from a Yuan tomb in Yuanyichang, Dongxi, Jianyang county are illustrated in Longquan Celadon - The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macau, 1998, pp. 130-31, no. 36, and pp. 232-33, nos. 97 and 98, respectively. A similar vessel, but with somewhat more sloping sides, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art. See J. Neils (ed.), The World of Ceramics, Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1982, p. 105, no. 109.
Frequently Asked Questions: Longquan Celadon Washer
What is a Longquan celadon washer?
A Longquan celadon washer is a ceramic piece, specifically a shallow, round vessel with a broad, flat, everted rim, produced in the Longquan kilns of Southern Song Dynasty China (1127-1279). These washers are renowned for their exquisite, soft blue-green celadon glaze, a hallmark of Longquan ware. They were primarily used by scholars for washing brushes.
What makes this particular Longquan celadon washer so rare and valuable?
This particular washer is considered rare due to its form, condition, and provenance. The shape and size are considered rare and a similar example in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is of a slightly different size. The soft bluish glaze is highly prized. This washer has also been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, increasing its desirability among collectors.
What is celadon and why is it so important in Chinese ceramics?
Celadon refers to a type of ceramic glaze characterized by its subtle green color, ranging from pale jade to deep olive. The color comes from iron oxide in the glaze, fired in a reduction atmosphere (low oxygen). Celadon was highly valued in Chinese ceramics for its aesthetic appeal, evoking jade, and for its association with scholarly and courtly culture.
Can you describe the specific features of this Longquan celadon washer?
This washer has a flared lower body leading up to a broad, flat rim. It is covered in a soft, blue-green glaze except for the foot. The dimensions are 5 ¾ inches (14.5 cm.) in diameter. Some examples, including this one, have repairs such as gold lacquer on the rim.
What is the significance of the Southern Song Dynasty in relation to Longquan celadon?
The Southern Song Dynasty was a golden age for Longquan celadon production. The imperial court's relocation to the south after the Jurchen invasion led to increased patronage of southern kilns like Longquan. This resulted in refined glaze techniques, elegant forms, and a focus on monochrome aesthetics that defined Southern Song ceramics.
What is the provenance of this particular Longquan celadon washer?
The washer has a well-documented provenance, having passed through several prominent collections, including The Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge Collection; Sotheby’s London, The Robert E. Barron III Collection; Christie’s New York, and Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
Where can similar examples of Longquan celadon washers be found?
Similar examples can be found in major museum collections, including the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Percival David Foundation in London, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Fragments of similar vessels have also been excavated at the Dayao kiln site and in Sichuan province.
How much did this Longquan celadon washer sell for?
This Longquan celadon washer sold for $1,025,000 USD at auction. The estimate was $500,000-$700,000 USD.
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