拍賣筆記 vol.461 佳士得紐約2026：19.2萬美元售出，北宋定窯白地剔麒麟紋枕，鴻禧美術館 - Christie’s New York, A Ding 'Qilin' Pillow, Chang Foundation Collection, Northern Song Dynasty, Sold for US$192,000
Updated: Oct 2
鴻禧美術館的傳承依然是十分重要的來源。此類麒麟圖案的定窯瓷枕母題罕見，此前一個雞蛋大王伊勢彥信的同款工藝定窯小洗於倫敦蘇富比2015年5月13日以55.7萬英鎊高價售出，可見這類器物的珍稀程度和歐美、日本藏家的重視程度。參見SACA學會發表的《茶人之心》文章：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NAXvswfYWpSseTDOs7AmQA （SACA觀察，2026.09.15）
此器以19.2萬美元成交，約合150.6萬港元，料已不及當年鴻禧美術館入藏時的價格。近年無論專業藏家抑或業餘愛好者，皆熱衷於辨析窯口，乃至陷入一種迷思：以一己推測取代考古實證。此風漸盛，幾成時習。這類器物在定窯、井陘窯均有出土；若欲明確分判窯口，除考古發掘外，仍須借助更多科學手段。眼學可以輔助，卻難以獨斷。
不知何故，此類以眼力自矜的辯難不斷被層層加碼，甚至已對市場價值產生影響。一旦陷入窯口非黑即白的論爭，對美的探求便難免暫時失焦。收藏固然要大膽假設，也須小心求證。求名心切雖是人之常情，但領略美的歷程，又豈能刻舟求劍？（2026.09.18更新）
北美私人珍藏重要中國藝術
北宋 定窯白地剔麒麟紋枕
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
9月17日 9AM 美國東部夏令時間 | 現場拍賣 22534
估價
美元 80,000 – 美元 120,000
來源
鴻禧美術館，臺北，1990年前
出版
鴻禧美術館，《中國歷代陶瓷選集》，臺北，1990年，頁92–93，編號27
上手圖：
Important Chinese Art from a North American Private Collection
A DING 'QILIN' PILLOW
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
Estimate
USD 80,000 – USD 120,000
The provenance lineage associated with the Hongxi Art Museum remains an exceptionally important point of reference. Ding-ware ceramic pillows decorated with the qilin motif are exceedingly rare. A small Ding washer of comparable carved-and-incised technique, formerly in the collection of the Japanese “Egg King” Ise Hikonobu, sold at Sotheby’s London on 13 May 2015 for £557,000—clear testimony both to the scarcity of such pieces and to the high regard in which they have long been held by collectors in Europe, America and Japan. See the SACA Society article “The Heart of the Tea Person”: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NAXvswfYWpSseTDOs7AmQA
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE DING 'QILIN' PILLOW
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) long, cloth box
PROVENANCE
Chang Foundation Collection, Taipei, by 1990.
LITERATURE
Chang Foundation, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pp. 92-3, no. 27.
Ding pillows carved with zoomorphic decoration are exceptionally rare, the vast majority of known examples being decorated with floral motifs. For a related two-color Ding pillow carved with a lotus design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, inscribed and dated to the eighth year of the Dading reign (1168), see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum – 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 98–9, no. 89. Another two-color Ding pillow of comparable form decorated with floral motifs, also in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Dingci yaji: Gugong bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Dingyao ciqi huicui (Selection of Ding Ware: The Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation), Beijing, 2012, no. 100.
Further comparable carved Ding pillows include an example in the Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province, illustrated in Mu in Dingci yishu (The Art of Ding Porcelain), Shijiazhuang, 2002, p. 148, no. 198. Related two-color Ding pillows are also preserved in major international collections, including one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated by B. Gray in Sung Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1984, p. 72, no. 52, and another published in Chinese Ceramic Pillows from the Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Osaka, 1984, p. 34, no. 6.
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