拍賣筆記 vol.445 蘇富比紐約2026：唐代石灰岩雕鼠形鎮紙，郎朗老師格拉夫曼收藏 - Sotheby’s New York 2026, Gary Graffman Collection, A Limestone Rat-Form Weight, Tang Dynasty
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初看像兔子，蘇富比定為鼠形鎮紙。細看體型比例、抬頭的角度、尾的長度，確實是鼠，不是兔。北齊到唐的兔：由瘦到肥，由抽象到具象。北朝兔身瘦長、耳貼背；盛唐寫實，體圓而肥，白釉、藍釉皆有，耳長，蹲坐或匍匐於座。尾巴始終是貼在臀後的小三角形，未見拖出的長尾。東京國立博物館藍釉兔、大維德基金會白釉兔、秦峰男舊藏白釉兔（SACA《拍賣筆記 vol.43》，336萬港元成交）同屬此系。本件若作兔看，尾顯長。
鼠在中國早期造型裡本就少。生肖排第一，俑裡卻遠少於馬、駝、豬。陶塑單獨成器的鼠更少。唐代除十二生肖立俑外，鼠類多走葡萄藤：銀器蓋鈕上銜葡萄的松鼠（或樹鼩），銅鏡瑞獸葡萄紋中的長尾動物。蘇富比香港近年所拍埃斯肯納齊舊藏銀鎏金鼠形（或瑞獸）香盒，以及埃斯肯納齊經手、蓋鈕作松鼠銜葡萄的瓜形鎏金銀盒（Hochstadter舊藏，2011年紐約亞洲藝術週展出），都是這一脈。鏡背「瑞獸葡萄」是同一母題的平面：海獸、獅、鳥與葡萄藤同場，其間偶見長尾齧齒類。（SACA觀察）
PIANIST. MENTOR. AESTHETE. THE COLLECTION OF GARY GRAFFMAN SOLD TO BENEFIT THE GARY AND NAOMI GRAFFMAN FOUNDATION
唐 石灰岩雕鼠形鎮紙
現場拍賣開始：
September 16, 09:00 PM HKT
估價
4,000 - 6,000 USD
狀況報告
Small losses to the corners, and a few minute chips to the carved decoration. Abrasion and scratching to the surface overall. In otherwise good condition.
A limestone rat-form weight, Tang dynasty
Live auction begins on:
September 16, 09:00 PM HKT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Description
Length 6¼ in., 15.8 cm
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 27th November 1990, lot 67.
SACA Observation
At first glance the animal reads as a rabbit. Sotheby’s catalogues it as a rat-form paperweight. The proportions, the lift of the head and the length of the tail are those of a rat, not a hare.
Rabbits from the Northern Qi into the Tang move from lean to plump, from abbreviated to descriptive. Northern Dynasties examples are long-bodied, ears flat to the back. High Tang rabbits are naturalistic and heavy: white glaze and blue glaze, rounded bodies, long ears, seated or recumbent on a plinth. The tail remains a small triangle against the rump; a trailing tail does not appear. The blue-glazed rabbit in the Tokyo National Museum, the white-glazed rabbit in the Sir Percival David Collection, and the Hata Mineo white rabbit (SACA Auction Notes vol. 43, sold for HK$3.36 million) belong to that series. Read as a rabbit, the tail of the present piece is too long.
The rat is scarce in early Chinese sculpture. It stands first in the zodiac, yet among tomb figures it is far rarer than the horse, the camel or the boar. A rat modelled as an independent ceramic is rarer still. Apart from standing zodiac figures, Tang rats more often inhabit the grape vine: a squirrel or tree shrew holding grapes on the knop of a silver box; a long-tailed rodent in the beasts-and-grapes ground of a bronze mirror. The parcel-gilt silver rat (or mythical-beast) box from Eskenazi sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in recent seasons, and the melon-shaped parcel-gilt silver box with a squirrel at the knop, formerly Walter Hochstadter, shown by Eskenazi in New York in 2011, belong to that line. The ‘auspicious beasts and grapes’ mirrors are the same motif in the plane: sea beasts, lions, birds and vines, with a long-tailed rodent sometimes among them.
參考文獻 / References
SACA，《拍賣筆記 vol.43》秦峰男：唐白釉兔，成交336萬港元。https://www.artsaca.com/post/auction43
東京國立博物館藏唐藍釉兔（高約10.6 cm）。
British Museum, Sir Percival David Collection, PDF.124。唐白釉兔。1935年倫敦《中國藝術國際展覽會》，編號989。
Eskenazi Ltd., Early Chinese Metalwork in Gold and Silver and Works of Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 15–26 March 2011。唐局部鎏金銀瓜形蓋盒，蓋鈕松鼠（樹鼩）銜葡萄。Walter Hochstadter 舊藏，1950年代購於上海。
Sotheby’s Hong Kong（近季），埃斯肯納齊舊藏唐銀鎏金鼠形／瑞獸香盒。
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.51.1. Mirror with fantastic animals amid grape vines, Tang dynasty, 7th–8th century.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995.353. Animal-and-Grape Mirror, late 7th century.
Freer Gallery of Art, F1944.5. Mirror with birds, animals, and grapes, early Tang.
蘇富比紐約，1981年11月6日，編號142。唐生肖鼠俑（頭施藍釉）。參見 SACA《拍賣筆記 vol.355》所引。
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