拍賣筆記 vol.289 蘇富比香港：伊勢彥信，444.5萬售出，元青花趕珠雲龍紋高足盃 - Sotheby’s Ise Sale, A Blue And White 'Dragon' Stem Cup, Yuan Dynasty, Sold for 4.445m HKD

在元青花高足盃的收藏譜系中，伊勢彥信舊藏的這件 趕珠雲龍紋高足盃 無疑屬於「金字塔頂層」的典型範式：尺寸達 11.5 公分、器形寬闊而氣勢完整，並自 1950 年代起連續出現於日本、美國與歐洲重要美術館與陶瓷學術展覽中，形成長達 70 年的權威敘事鏈。

與岡田美術館之例相比，伊勢盃在體量、文獻累積與展覽史三方面皆更具份量，因而在蘇富比香港 2025 年秋拍以 444.5 萬港元 落槌，也恰好反映其在市場上的自然層級：高於「岡田盃」的 355.6 萬港元——後者尺寸偏小、敘事較短——又低於「瓊肯盃」13 cm 級別的超標竿價格。從結果來看，伊勢盃的成交價既延續其作為日本美術館體系代表標本的地位，也精準展示出本季元青花高足盃市場的階梯式分層：由瓊肯到伊勢、再到岡田，各自以體量、來源與學術史深度，構築出不同層級的價值曲線。

Within the hierarchy of Yuan blue-and-white stem cups, the present Ise Collection ‘dragon’ stem cup stands at the upper end of the spectrum. Measuring an impressive h. 11.5 cm, and supported by a seventy-year chain of major exhibitions—from the 1956 Japan Ceramic Society show to the Musée Guimet in Paris (2017)—it represents a fully formed, museum-grade narrative specimen.

Compared with the recently sold Okada Museum cup (HKD 3.556 million), the Ise example exceeds it in scale, presence, and accumulative scholarship, resulting in its HKD 4.445 million price at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in September 2025. Positioned below only the benchmark Junkunc cup, yet distinctly above the more compact Okada example, the Ise stem cup illustrates with precision how the market articulates value in this specialised category: through size, provenance depth, and authoritative publication history. In this season’s sales, the Ise cup thus anchors the top tier of Yuan stem cups, reaffirming the structured hierarchy that defines this narrow but highly studied field.

元　青花趕珠雲龍紋高足盃

A rare blue and white 'dragon' stem cup, Yuan dynasty

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2025 September 9, 07:30 PM HKT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 8,000,000 HKD

Lot Sold

4,445,000 HKD

整體品相佳。僅見些許正常窰燒微瑕，包括足内一窰線。

來源

平野古陶軒

展覽

《中國陶磁元明名品展》，日本陶磁協会，高島屋，東京， 1956年，編號65

《中国名陶百選》，髙島屋，東京，1960年，編號68

《中国宋元美術展目録》，東京國立博物館，東京，1961年，編號295

《東洋の染付》，三越（日本橋），東京，1977年，編號14

《中國美術展シリーズ：宋元の美術》，大阪市立美術館，大阪，卷四，1978年，編號1-254

《中国陶磁名品展―イセコレクションの至宝》，石川縣立美術館，石川，2012年，編號45

《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise》，吉美博物館，巴黎，2017年，編號33

《イセコレクション 世界を魅了した中国陶磁》，大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館，大阪，2017年，編號39

出版

小山冨士夫等，《世界陶磁全集》，卷十一：元明，東京，1955年，圖版2

藤岡了一，《陶器全集》，卷十一：元明初の染付，東京，1960年，圖版3

長谷部楽爾，〈中国の陶磁11 中国の染付〉，《日本美術工芸》，348號，1967年9月，頁86

佐藤正彦等，《陶器講座》，卷七：中国III 元明，東京，1971年，圖版10至11

矢部良明，《陶磁大系》，卷四十一：元の染付，東京，1974年，圖版62至63

大阪市立美術館編，《宋元の美術》，東京，1980年，圖版45

三上次男等，《世界陶磁全集》，卷十三：遼金元，東京，1981年，圖版119

《平野古陶軒創立五十周年記念 古陶軒撰華》，平野古陶軒，1988年，圖版67

《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》，東京，2012年，頁52至53

《芸術新潮》，2012年5月別冊，圖6

Christian Boehm，〈A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection〉，《亞洲藝術》，2018年7/8月，圖20

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。另一例經帕默、徐氏藝術館及玫茵堂遞藏，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至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。

Description

the wide, flared cup with rounded sides, supported on a hollow splayed stem with horizontal bamboo-node ridges emphasised by incised lines, the interior crisply moulded around the well with two four-clawed dragons striding among flames, set around a central medallion painted with a chrysanthemum spray within a moulded double-line border, all under a classic scroll at the rim, the exterior decorated in underglaze blue with a single three-clawed dragon with wide open jaws, a slender undulating body, and scales finely detailed by cross-hatching, the interior of the stem and footring left unglazed, Japanese wood box

d. 13 cm; h. 11.5 cm

Condition Report

The stem cup is in excellent overall condition, with only minor firing imperfections typical of this period, including a firing line to the inner foot.

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Provenance

Hirano Kotoken.

Exhibited

Chugoku Toji Gen Ming Meihinten [Chinese Ceramics from the Yuan - Ming Dynasties], Japan Ceramic Society, Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1956, cat. no. 65.

Chugoku Meito Hyaku-sen / A Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Selected Masterpieces from Collections in Japan, England, France and America, Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1960, cat. no. 68.

Chugoku So Gen Bijutsu Ten [Chinese Art of the Sung and Yuan periods], Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1961, cat. no. 295.

Toyo no sometsuke [Far Eastern Blue and White Porcelain], Mitsukoshi (Nihonbashi), Tokyo, 1977, cat. no. 14.

So Gen no Bijutsu [Art of the Song and Yuan Dynasties], Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, vol. 4, 1978, cat. no. 1-254.

Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 45.

Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 33.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 39.

Literature

Fujio Koyama, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol 11: Gen Min [Yuan Ming], Tokyo, 1955, pl. 2.

Ryoichi Fujioka, Toki Zenshu [The Complete Works of Ceramics], vol.11: Gen Minsho no Sometsuke [Blue and White in Yuan and Early Ming]. Tokyo, 1960, pl. 3.

Hasebe Rakuji, Chugoku no Toji 11 Chugoku no Sometsuke [Chinese Ceramics 11 Chinese Blue and White], Nihon Bijutsu Kogei [A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Study of Works on Far Eastern Art], vol: 348, September 1967, p. 86.

Sato Masahiko, ed., Toki Koza [Lecture of Ceramics], vol. 7: Chugoku III Gen Min [China III Yuan Ming], Tokyo, 1971, pls 10-11.

Yabe Yoshiaki, Toji Taikei [Compendium of Ceramics], vol. 41: Gen no Sometsuke [Blue and white ware of Yuan], Tokyo, 1974, pls 62-63.

Osaka Municipal Museum of Art ed., So Gen no Bijutsu [Arts in Song and Yuan dynasties], Tokyo, 1980, pl. 45.

Tsugio Mikami, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 13: Ryo Kin Gen [Liao, Chin and Yuan Dynasties], Tokyo, 1981, pl. 119.

Hirano Kotoken Soritsu 50 Shunen Kinen Kotoken Senka [50th Anniversary of Hirano Kotoken: Masterpieces from Hirano Kotoken], Hirano Kotoken, 1988, pl. 67.

Chugoku Toji Ise Korekushon [Chinese ceramics. The Ise collection], Tokyo, 2012, pp. 52-53.

Geijutsu Shincho [A Monthly Japanese Art Journal], May 2012 (Supplement), fig. 6.

Christian Boehm, 'A Tea Master's Vision: Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection', Arts of Asia, July-August 2018, fig. 20.

Catalogue Note

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 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.

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.