拍賣筆記 vol.465 佳士得紐約2026:44.8萬美元售出,16-17世紀黃花梨嵌大理石筆屏 - A Dali Marble-Inset Huanghuali Table Screen And Brush Holder, 16-17 Century China, Sold for US$448,000

小小筆屏拍出高價,十分值得關注的文人品味藏品。(2026.09.20更新)
此件黃花梨嵌大理石筆屏極為珍罕,其形制應為筆筒先驅。1966年明萬曆年間朱守誠墓中出土多件文房,其中一件筆屏應為目前已知經出版之孤例,見 柯惕思著《紀年古典家具圖考》,上海,2026年,頁71,上海博物館館藏編號1620.17。
朱守誠墓所出土文房用具,至於中國文房研究,意義重大深切。歸功於朱妻墓中發現之契據,整組文房得以較確切地斷代於萬曆年間,最遲不晚於十七世紀初。存世文房器具爲數甚多,又因其形制較簡約樸素,鮮有可靠銘文紀年,欲斷其風格體系,誠屬不易。此批出土器物著實為文房斷代關鍵性可靠依據,更顯彌足珍貴。
明代瓷製筆屏承襲自木製原型。可參一件萬曆青花筆屏,其結構與本拍品頗為相近,並經B. Macguire 著錄於《Four Centuries of Blue & White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain》,倫敦,2023年,頁174,編號136。該屏仿立式屏心帶框,下承站牙,並於一側設三孔筆插,構思與本件如出一轍。

善若水軒: 美國珍藏
十六/十七世紀 黃花梨嵌大理石筆屏
16TH-17TH CENTURY
成交價:美元 448,000
估價:美元 7,000 – 美元 9,000
拍品終止拍賣: 2026年9月18日
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) high, 615⁄16 in. (17.7 cm.) wide, 4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) deep
來源
東泰商行 (黑洪祿), 香港, 1993年
展覽
波士頓,馬薩諸塞州,波士頓美術館,「Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries」,1996年5月18日至2017年11月28日
Shanruoshui Xuan: Property from an American Collection
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE DALI MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN AND BRUSH HOLDER
16TH-17TH CENTURY
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE DALI MARBLE-INSET HUANGHUALI TABLE SCREEN AND BRUSH HOLDER
16TH-17TH CENTURY
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) high, 615⁄16 in. (17.7 cm.) wide, 4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Eastern Pacific Company (Hei Hung Lu), Hong Kong, acquired in 1993.
EXHIBITED
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 18 May 1996-28 November 2017.
This extremely rare Dali marble-inset huanghuali table screen with integral brush holder is the precursor to the brush pot. There appears to be only one other published example of a table screen with integral brush holder excavated along with other scholar’s objects in 1966 from the Wanli period (1573-1619) tomb of Zhu Shoucheng, illustrated by C. Evarts in Dateable Chinese Furniture: Reference and Analysis, Shanghai, 2026, p. 71, no. 1620.17, in the Shanghai Museum.
The discovery of this group of desk articles in the tomb of Zhu Shoucheng is of considerable importance to the study of scholar’s objects. Dated to the Wanli period through a deed recovered from the adjacent tomb of his wife, the group can be securely assigned to no later than the early seventeenth century. While many scholar’s implements survive, their simple forms and lack of reliable dated inscriptions have hindered the establishment of a stylistic chronology. These excavated pieces provide crucial benchmarks from which a more reliable chronological framework can be developed.
Ming-period ceramic examples of table screens with integral brush holder drew inspiration from their wood counterparts. A blue and white Wanli period brush-holder table screen illustrated by B. Macguire, Four Centuries of Blue & White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, London, 2023, p. 174, no. 136 is constructed in a similar manner with a central screen joining a tall framework supported by shaped standing spandrels and with three apertures for holding brushes on one side. (Fig 1)





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