Early Ming Dynasty The robustly cast bronze body brightly enamelled with a central medallion of a seeded pod encircled by two rows of radiating lotus lappets, enclosed by four smaller lotus flowers each borne on a leafy scroll alternating four flower buds, bound within a gold border, the cavetto further decorated with large multi-coloured lotus blooms borne on a continuous foliate scroll, the decoration repeated on the exterior, all reserved on a turquoise ground, the gilt base finely incised with a double vajra flanked by ribbons. 26cm (10 1/4in) diam. 注脚 明早期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋盤 The enamel decoration on the present lot is exceptional for the high quality of its execution of multi-coloured depiction of the leafy scrolls, simulating painting. The classic design of the lotus-seed pod as the central medallion appears to be a popular motif found in several examples dating to the Xuande period. See a cloisonné enamel disc, and a cloisonné enamel circular box and cover, Xuande marks and period, both with a similar design of the lotus-seed pod, illustrated by H.Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pls.10 and 11. See a closely related cloisonné dish of the same size (26cm diam.) and a nearly identical design, also with a double-vajra incised to the underside, dated first half of 15th century, in the Pierre Uldry collection, which is illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz in the Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984. pl.14. A similar double-vajra can be found on the base of two cloisonné enamel zun vases both with Jingtai reign marks, one in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (acc.no.: B60P288), and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falangqi quanji: 5: falangqi vol.1, Hebei, 2001, no.51. Although there has been speculation in the past that some Jingtai marked cloisonné wares are in fact of the Xuande period but with later incised marks, a connection is suggested between the appearance of the double-vajra symbol and the Jingtai mark, as the Jingtai emperor was known to have been a passionate supporter of Tibetan Buddhism. See also a related smaller cloisonne 'lotus' dish, Jingtai mark and period, but with a very similar design, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 April 2018, lot 3406. 銅胎，盤薄唇外撇，平底，盤心起線掐絲作蓮花，蓮心圍兩層方頭蓮辦，再外一周飾以連枝番蓮紋大小八朵，松石料為地，花瓣填以紅、白、藍、綠諸色，番蓮葉填綠料，葉尖填紅黃二色，墻線及口沿鎏金，內外壁飾番蓮紋一周，如盤心所飾，底部露銅胎，鏨刻羯磨杵，刻槽內鎏金。 此種在器物中心以雙層方頭蓮瓣番蓮為主體紋飾的掐絲琺瑯器，多見於明宣德之例。如瑞士Pierre Uldry所藏一件明宣德掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋盤，以及一件明宣德掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋圓蓋盒，均以銅絲掐出「大明宣德年製」楷書款，著錄於H. Garner，《Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels》，倫敦，1962年，圖版10及11。 瑞士Pierre Uldry藏一件十五世紀上半葉之銅胎掐絲琺瑯番蓮紋盤，其紋飾與尺寸（26公分）與本件完全相同，見 H.Brinker及 A.Lutz著《Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry》，蘇黎世，1984年，圖版14。 類似在掐絲琺瑯器底刻十字金剛杵的例子，在幾件帶有「大明景泰年製」刻款的掐絲琺瑯器上也有所見，如舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏一件掐絲琺瑯出戟尊（博物館編號：B60P288），以及一件藏於北京故宮博物院的明宣德銅胎掐絲琺瑯出戟尊，著錄於《中國金銀玻璃琺瑯器全集5：琺瑯器（一）河北，2001年，編號51。雖然一部分帶有景泰年款的掐絲琺瑯器被認為是明初御用監製造之後刻款器物，但十字金剛杵也很有可能與明代宗朱祁鈺篤信藏傳佛教有關。 另見香港蘇富比曾售出一件尺寸稍小的明景泰銅胎掐絲琺瑯纏枝番蓮紋盤，其紋飾佈局與此盤類似，2018年4月2日，拍品編號3406。