拍賣筆記 vol.275 蘇富比香港：254萬港元成交，宋至元鈞窰月白釉紫斑花口梅瓶 - A Large Junyao Purple-Splashed Foliate-Rim Vase, Meiping, Song - Yuan Dynasty Sold for 2.54m HKD

在中國藏家的審美與判斷體系尚未真正沉澱之際，市場上對於古代藝術的價值認知依然處於辯論與重塑階段——學術脈絡未完全建構、市場品味又常受短期聲量與輿論牽動。在這種「審美未定型」的過渡期裡，真正罕見的類型往往最容易被忽略，也最能反映出收藏者的焦慮與市場的搖擺。

本件宋至元鈞窰月白釉紫斑花口梅瓶正是一個典型案例：即便瓶口與肩部經修，但其類型之稀絕、來源之顯赫、著錄之完整，都使其仍具備極高的學術與收藏價值。然而最終僅以254萬港元成交，仍屬明顯低估。某種意義上，這件作品既是鈞窰研究上的珍稀類型，也是當下中國收藏界尚未真正建立起自主審美系統的一面鏡子。

Within the Chinese collecting world, aesthetic criteria for Jun ware—and for classical ceramics more broadly—remain in a state of ongoing debate and re-alignment. A coherent scholarly consensus has yet to fully settle, while market preferences are often swayed by noise, short-term sentiment, and fluctuating narratives. In such a transitional moment, exceptionally rare forms are paradoxically the most vulnerable to being overlooked, yet they also serve as clear indicators of the anxieties and uncertainties shaping contemporary taste.

This Junyao foliate-rim meiping, dating from the Song to Yuan period, is a prime example. Although restored at the mouth and shoulder, its extreme rarity, distinguished provenance, and substantial publication record place it well beyond ordinary market categories. Yet its final price of HKD 2.54 million remains strikingly low, a result that underscores not the limitations of the vase itself, but the fact that a mature, internally coherent system of connoisseurship among Chinese collectors has yet to be fully established.

宋至元

鈞窰月白釉紫斑花口梅瓶

A large Junyao purple-splashed foliate-rim vase, meiping, Song - Yuan dynasty

Auction Closed

2025 November 22, 06:38 PM HKT

Estimate

500,000 - 1,000,000 HKD

Lot Sold

2,540,000 HKD

Vase restored, mainly to the neck, shoulder, and one side of the body. A tiny rim chip (approx. 1cm) on the underside of one lobe.

瓶經修，主要於肩頸及器身一側。瓶口一瓣沿見一小磕（約1公分）。

來源

梅原龍三郎（1888-1986年）收藏

山上鎮夫氏（1897-1993年）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53（沒載圖）

出版

邑木千以，《愛蔵弁あり―古美術蒐集家訪問記》，東京，1965年，頁79

青柳惠介，《101人の古美術》，東京，1997年，頁197 

小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷1，東京，2013年，編號19

鈞窰瓶類飾花口者絕少，花口梅瓶似乎惟本件而已。可比較三件帶此類五辦花口的鈞窰觚形瓶，一件為George Eumorfopoulos舊藏，惟釉面欠佳，載於R.L. Hobson，《Catalogue of the chinese， Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain》，卷3，倫敦，1926年，圖版10，編號C33；另有一件售於紐約蘇富比，1986年6月4日，編號45，入藏在望山莊，2012年9月11日再經紐約蘇富比釋出，編號131；香港沐文堂舊藏一件亦資參考，展覽於敏求精舍三十週年紀念展，載於《歷代文物萃珍》 ，香港，1990年，編號39。還可比較香港佳士得售出一件鈞窰花口長頸瓶，2022年11月29日，編號2908。

Description

the tapering body rising to rounded shoulders, surmounted by a short waisted neck with a mouth festooned with five lobed, radiating petals, covered overall in a milky lavender-blue glaze with bold violet-purple splashes, thinning to a mushroom tone around the rim and stopping neatly above the foot to reveal the buff-coloured body, Japanese double wood box

41 cm

Provenance

Collection of Ryuzaburo Umehara (1888-1986).

Collection of Yamagami Shizuo (1897-1993).

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Exhibited

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. 53 (unillustrated).

Literature

Chii Muraki, Aizo ben ari. Kobijutsu shushuka houmonki [With Cherished Anecdotes. A Record of Visits to Antique Art Collectors], Tokyo, 1965, p. 79.

Aoyagi Keisuke, 101nin no kobijutsu [Antiques from 101 Collectors], Tokyo, 1997, p. 197.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 1, Tokyo, 2013, no. 19.

Catalogue Note

Jun vases with lobed mouths are exceedingly rare, and this particular meiping appears to be a unique example. Compare, however, three Jun gu-vases with similarly lobed rims: one formerly in the George Eumorfopoulos collection, though with an unsuccessfully fired glaze, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 3, London, 1926, pl.10, no. C33;

another example was sold in our New York rooms, 4th June, 1986, lot 45, later acquired by T. T. Tsui, and sold again through our same rooms, 11th September, 2012, lot 131; a third piece, previously in the Muwentang Collection, exhibited at the 30th Anniversary of Min Chiu Society, illustrated in Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1990, no.39. Additionally, compare also a Jun bottle vase with a similar mouth-rim, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29th November, 2022, lot 2908.