Late Kangxi/early Yongzheng The deep rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, the interior superbly painted on a vivid yolk-yellow ground with a landscape on the centre, in which a scholar with his attendant and a horse on a ferry boat crossing the river, the river flanked by mountainous sides detailed with villages and temples, surrounded by musical instruments and scholarly objects on a coin-diaper ground amidst cartouches painted with landscapes, the exterior sides painted with four fan-shaped cartouches painted with landscape and bamboo, and divided by four yellow pomegranate-shaped cartouches decorated with flower and rocks on a keyfret-diaper ground. 52.5cm (20 1/4in) diam.Footnotes清康熙晚期/雍正早期 黃地五彩田園山水圖大盤 Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22 May 1984, lot 164 (dated Yongzheng) An American private collection 來源: 香港蘇富比，1984年5月22日，拍品編號164（斷代雍正） 美國私人收藏 The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.P120g86, dated 19 November 2020, is consistent with the dating of this lot. 牛津鑒定公司熱釋光檢測結果（2020年11月19日，編號P120g86）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。 This extremely rare dish is striking for its impressive large size and its use of unusual enamel colours. The thick, rich, and opaque egg-yolk-yellow ground colour on the present dish was one of the newly developed enamel colours during the late Kangxi period and is very different from the earlier Kangxi yellow which was paler, transparent, and more lemon-toned. In addition to the distinctive yellow ground, the brightly toned purple and green enamels, together with the opaque black enamels which were used to decorate as the ruyi borders on the rim, present a very similar quality to the enamel colours imported from the port of Guangzhou during the 18th century known as "Canton Enamels", suggesting a close dialogue between the "foreign colours" and the production of porcelain at Jingdezhen. For a detailed discussion on the origin of "Canton Enamel" and its influence on the porcelain production at Jingdezhen, see an essay by Guo Xuelei, 'guangcai qiyuan ji qi zaoqi mianmao'(The Origin of Canton Enamel and its early Appearance)', in Oriental Collection, December issue, Fujian, 2018, pp.5-22. This impressive dish presents a typical theme of scholars visiting friends or their journey to a gathering. Making a long-distance trip was not easy in pre-modern China. A scholar to join a friend's invitation had to cross mountains and rivers, thus on art works of such theme, it usually depicted in a mountainous landscape a sage and an attendant moving on foot, by boat, by horse or by sedan chair. Compare with a related large yellow-ground famille verte-rose 'peonies and pheasants' dish, Kangxi, in the G.R. Davis collection, which is illustrated by E.Gorer and J.F. Blacker in Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, pl.61. Compare also with two related yellow-ground famille verte lobed dishes, Kangxi, which were sold at Christie's New York on 20th September 2013, lot 1358. 盤折沿，內沿及盤心黃彩為地，內沿繪錢紋及花紋錦地，錦地上分別繪琴、棋、書、畫、香、酒等器具，三面開光，內繪高士行吟圖，盤心繪高士乘船渡河，兩岸山景有村莊、寺廟、茅亭及行人，外壁繪回紋錦地，其上四面扇形開光，開光內分別繪青綠山水及墨竹，開光之間繪四面石榴形黃地開光，內繪花草湖石，圈足內收，底施透明釉。此盤以黃為地，明黃耀眼，山水青綠層次分明，皴法高妙如在紙上，行人動物動靜描繪生動。 此黃地五彩大盤尺寸碩大，在瓷胎上先施一層薄釉，再以油性顏料在胎釉上施彩，其黃地釉彩濃稠不透明，紫色及綠色釉彩亦濃烈鮮艷，特別是折沿邊如意形開光所使用的不透明油性黑彩，均與康熙早期的素三彩瓷以及釉上彩瓷形成鮮明對比，反而與十八世紀從廣東引進的琺瑯彩在質地和發色各方面都有相似之處，映射廣琺瑯對廣彩瓷以及景德鎮製瓷的重大影響。有關廣彩起源以及廣琺瑯對景德鎮製瓷影響的深入討論，見郭學雷，〈廣彩起源及其早期面貌〉，著錄於《東方收藏》，2018年第12期，福建，頁5-22 。 古人遠行赴約實非易事，跋山涉水，穿山越嶺乃是常態。此盤所繪完整展現了古人長途交通方法，諸如渡船、騎馬、徒步、乘轎等等。 此盤體量巨大，黃地五彩在康雍兩朝皆十分少見，可比較英國G.R. Davis收藏一件黃地五彩錦雞牡丹紋大盤，風格當屬一路，見E.Gorer及J.F. Blacker著，《Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones》，倫敦，1911年，圖版61。另可比較兩件黃地五彩山水人物碟，2013年9月20日售於佳士得紐約，拍品編號1358。