Chinese porcelain cruet decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua) after a European form, Kangxi reign.

Chinese export porcelain double-bodied cruet after European glass form with fluted body, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua) with a dense floral and leaf pattern, base with Artemisia leaf mark, c. 1700, Kangxi reign, Qing dynasty, h. 19 cm, 7½ in. 1.13207

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 27.

Literature:

• China for the West, by D. Howard and
J. Ayers, London and New York 1978, p. 50, fig. 14, volume I, for a similar piece;

• Chinese Export Porcelain, by D.F.L. Scheurleer, fig. 124 for a similar piece with different decoration;

• Chinese Export-Porcelain, Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Hong Kong 1989, catalogue by C.J.A. Jörg, p. 50, for an identical cruet;

• L’Odyssée de la Porcelaine Chinoise, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p.139 for a similar piece with a different floral decoration;

• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, by C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p. 257, cat. 293 for a similar cruet;

• La Céramique Chinoise ancienne, by A. Hougron, Paris 2015, p. 267 for a cruet of the same form but with a different floral decoration;

• Ming-Qing Export Porcelain from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum, 2015 exhibition catalogue, pp. 192/193 for two similar pieces with different decoration.

◆ Cruets of this form are known since the end of the 16th century in Medici faience and glass and in the early 18th century in Meissen porcelain.

中國外銷瓷雙體調味瓶, 此器模仿了歐式槽紋玻璃瓶的器型, 以青花繪有繁密的花草圖案, 器底有艾葉 紋款, 約1700 年, 清康熙, 高19 釐米, 7½ 英吋。

插图: 《百年中国外销瓷》 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015, 目录 27。

參考文獻:

• 《西行中國》, 作者 D. Howard和J. Ayers, 1978年倫敦和紐約出版, 見第一卷第50頁圖14所示之近器;

• 《中國外銷瓷》, 作者 D.F.L.Scheurleer, 見圖70, 該器之形制 與本器相同但紋飾不同;

• 《中國外銷瓷, 布魯塞爾皇家藝術與歷史博物館藏的中國瓷器》, 1989年 香港出版, 作者 C.J.A. Jörg, 見第50頁同款調味瓶;

•《中國瓷器的奧德賽》, 展覽圖錄，2003年巴黎出版，見第139頁一繪花卉紋之近器；

•《阿姆斯特丹國家博物館藏中國陶瓷》,作者C.J.A Jörg,1997年倫敦出版,參見第257頁,編號293 一相似調味瓶；

•《中國古陶瓷》，作者A. Hougron，2015年巴黎出版，見267頁一件器型相同但繪花卉紋的調味瓶；

• 《故宮及上海博物館藏明清外銷瓷》，2015年展覽圖錄，第192/193頁見兩件紋飾不同的近器。

◆ 這個器型的調味瓶從16世紀末梅第奇的彩陶 與玻璃器中, 及其18世紀Meissen瓷器中都可 見到。