A rare blue and white 'dragon' 'dice' bowl, Bo, Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and period
明宣德 青花海水龍紋缽 青花《大明宣德年製》楷書款

The finely and robustly potted dice bowl, bo, with deep rounded sides and flat-cut rim, well-painted in intense and varying tones of underglaze blue with characteristic 'heaping and piling' on the exterior with two five-clawed dragons chasing one another through stylised ruyi cloud scrolls in mutual pursuit, all between a band of upright lotus petal lappets and a band of cresting waves, the interior painted in the well with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle

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Dimensions: 27.5cm diameter

From a German private collection, Cologne;

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Please compare this to a similar bowl from the estemeed collection of Sir Percival David now housed in the British Museum, accession no. PDF B640 and on display permanently in the gallery (G95/dc18/sh7) and also illustrated in, Pierson, Stacey. Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2004, p. 86, no. B640; Medley, Margaret. Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, 1976, p. 62, no. B640, pl. XIII; Pierson, Stacey. Blue and White for China: Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection, 2004, pp. 58-59, no. 21; Medley, Margaret. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Volume 7, 1975, pl. 97; another housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. C.310-1951 and in illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 148; another housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, pl. 124; another two in the National Palace Museum in Taipei accession no.004240N000000000 and 004241N000000000, also ncluded in the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum,Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 37; another in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., also published in ibid., vol. 10, pl. 104; another housed in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo and illustrated in Tōru Nakano, The Panoramic Views of Chinese Patterns, Tokyo, 1985, pl. 13

For similar closely related examples sold at auctions, please refer to one sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 09 April 2006, lot 1659; and another sold at Sotheby's, New York, 23 March 2022, lot 253; another previously in the Wu Lai-Hsi collection, sold in Sotheby's, London, 26th May 1937, lot 52 and then again in 8th May 1951, lot 69, from the collection of C. M. Woodbridge; another from the collection of Major Lindsay F. Hay sold at Sotheby's, London, 16th June 1939, lot 84; another bowl of this form, included in the exhibition of Ming Blue and White, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1964, cat. no. 31 and on loan to the museum between 1964 and 1974, sold at Sotheby's, 6th April 1976, lot 116; further examples include, Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1659; Christie's, New York, 9 November 1981, lot 117; Christie's, Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 519, Christie's, London, 18 June 2002, lot 187.

請參考大英博物館庋藏、出自享譽盛名之戴維爵士（Sir Percival David）舊藏之相類器，館藏編號 PDF B640，現永久陳列於展廳 G95/dc18/sh7，並刊載於 Stacey Pierson，《Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art》，2004 年，頁 86，編號 B640；亦見於 Margaret Medley，《Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains》，1976 年，頁 62，編號 B640，圖版 XIII；另參 Stacey Pierson，《Blue and White for China: Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection》，2004 年，頁 58–59，編號 21；及 Margaret Medley，《Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art》，第 7 冊，1975 年，圖版 97。

另可比較維多利亞與亞伯特博物館所藏一例，館藏編號 C.310-1951，刊於《Oriental Ceramics. The World’s Great Collections》，第 6 卷，東京，1982 年，圖版 148。北京故宮博物院亦藏一例，載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集》，圖版 124。台北國立故宮博物院另藏兩例，館藏編號 004240N000000000 與 004241N000000000，並曾展於《明代宣德御瓷特展》，國立故宮博物院，1998 年，展品編號 37。華盛頓特區佛瑞爾美術館亦藏一例，刊於同系列出版物第 10 卷，圖版 104。另見東京松岡美術館所藏一例，刊於中野徹《中國文樣大觀》，東京，1985 年，圖版 13。

拍賣紀錄方面，可參考蘇富比香港 2006 年 4 月 9 日拍賣，編號 1659；以及蘇富比紐約 2022 年 3 月 23 日拍賣，編號 253。另有一例原屬吳賴熙舊藏，曾於蘇富比倫敦 1937 年 5 月 26 日拍賣，編號 52，後再於 1951 年 5 月 8 日拍賣，編號 69，時屬 C. M. Woodbridge 收藏。另見 Lindsay F. Hay 少校舊藏一例，售於蘇富比倫敦 1939 年 6 月 16 日，編號 84。