Wanli enamelled six-character mark and of the period The interior brightly and boldly decorated in multi-coloured enamels with two five-clawed dragons confronted within a field of scattered flower sprigs, encircled by a ruyi-head band and multi-coloured lotus scrolls with attendant buds blanketing the cavetto, the everted rim with Buddhist emblems and babao, repeated further on the exterior, the base enamelled in red with a six-character reign mark reserved on a large greenish-turquoise rectangle within key-fret and ruyi borders surrounded by scattered multi-coloured clouds, all on a bluish-turquoise ground. 57cm (22 3/8in) diam. 注脚 明萬曆 銅胎掐絲琺琅纏枝菊紋雙龍大盤 「大明萬曆年造」楷書款 Provenance: Sotheby's London, 21 July 1969, lot 91 Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr. (1904-1971) and Audrey B. Love (1903-2003), New York Christie's New York, The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection, 20 October 2004, lot 612 來源： 倫敦蘇富比，1969年7月21日，拍品91 紐約藏家Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr.先生 (1904-1971)及Audrey B. Love女士(1903-2003)收藏 紐約佳士得，「C. Ruxton先生及Audrey B. Love女士收藏」專場拍賣，2004年10月20日，拍品612 Audrey B. Love, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, was the daughter of Edith Guggenheim and Admiral Louis Josephthal. C. Ruxton Love Jr. was a partner with the Stock Exchange firm of Josephtal & Co. Both were well known art collectors and their collection of Napoleonic art was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978 and their Georgian silver collection was exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002. Audrey Love was a founding member of the Lowe Art Museum of the University of Miami. Audrey B. Love為美國慈善家及藝術品收藏家，為著名的古根海姆家族及約瑟夫塔爾上將的女兒。 C. Ruxton Love 先生是美國證券商Josephtal & Co.公司的合夥人。兩人均是知名的藝術品收藏家，他們收藏的與拿破崙相關的藝術品於1978年在紐約大都會藝術博物館展出，銀器收藏於2002年在英國國立維多利亞和阿伯特博物館展出。Audrey B. Love還是是邁阿密大學洛維藝術博物館的創始人。 This impressive dish belongs to a small and important group of cloisonné enamel wares bearing prominent enamelled Wanli marks within a rectangle and encircled by ruyi heads. As noted by Sir Harry Garner, they are of outstanding documentary importance as the only pieces with contemporary marks of sixteenth-century emperors that can be accepted without question as belonging to the period of the mark, see H.Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pp.76-77. Wanli mark and period dishes of this size decorated with dragons are extremely rare, with only three other related examples which appear to have been published, including a large cloisonné enamel 'dragon' dish (51cm diam.) with a foliate rim in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, no.47; another slightly smaller (50cm diam.) dish in the British Museum, London, illustrated by H.Garner ibid., pl.F (acc.no.1885,1227.79); and the third example of smaller size (48cm diam.) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1999, no.11. A further Wanli mark and period cloisonné enamel foliate-rim dish also decorated with two dragons (49.6cm diam.) was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1267. Please refer to the essay by Zhang Rong in this catalogue for further discussion on Wanli mark and period cloisonné enamel dishes. 盤折邊口，平底，銅胎鎏金，紋飾掐絲。盤心及折沿施藍色琺瑯釉為地，盤心飾雙龍穿花，以紅、白、黃、薑黃、深藍、天藍，松石綠，分紅等色飾花卉，紅龍與綠龍張牙舞爪，飛騰追逐穿行於纏枝花卉之間，盤內壁施綠色琺瑯釉為地，並飾纏枝蓮紋一周，盤口沿飾雜寶紋一周，盤外壁飾掐絲雲紋及八寶紋。綠地長方框內，鏨雙線填朱紅釉「大明萬曆年造」六字楷書款。 參看三件萬曆款的掐絲琺瑯大盤，所飾龍紋樣式與此件拍品非常接近，一件藏於北京故宮博物院，《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：金屬胎琺瑯器》，香港，2002年，編號47；一件藏於大英博物館，H. Garner著，《 Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels》，倫敦，1962年，圖版F；第三件在台北故宮博物院，著錄於《明清琺瑯器展覽圖錄》，台北，1999年，編號11。 佳士得香港曾售出一件尺寸稍小的萬曆龍紋大盤（49.6cm），2005年5月30日，拍品編號1267。 更多有關明萬曆款掐絲琺瑯器的討論，請參看本圖錄中張榮的專文論述。