15 - The Property of a Gentleman, to be offered without reserve (Lots 1 - 56)

The Property of a Gentleman, to be offered without reserve (Lots 1 - 56) A Chinese Guangdong or Fujian sancai-enamelled 'Tradescant' jar Ming dynasty, circa 1600 Moulded with formal scrolling leafy flowerheads, enamelled in ochre and aubergine on a green ground, the shoulder set with five loop handles, the base unglazed, 26cm high. (Import Duty Charged on the Hammer Price) 落槌價徵收進口關稅 Provenance: British private collection, assembled in Hong Kong 1988-1998. Schoeni Fine Oriental Art, 4th September 1993 (receipt). 明約一六零零年 三彩貼花花卉紋陶罐 來源：英國私人收藏，於1988至1998年間在香港購藏。 Schoeni Fine Oriental Art，1993年9月4日（收據）。 Cf. See an identical jar in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. For an example in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (37 cm high), see Eva Strober, Ming Porcelain for a Globalized Trade (Stuttgart, 2013), cat. no. 40, pp. 132–133; see also B. Harrison, Pusaka Heirloom Jars of Borneo (Oxford, 1990), pl. 77 (the same jar). The present lot belongs to a small group of surviving jars named after the botanist Sir John Tradescant (d. 1638), who acquired one such jar, given to Elias Ashmole in 1659 and then donated to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which opened in 1683. Other examples are preserved in the collections of the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (1961.27), and the Museum Pusat, Jakarta. Similar jars are illustrated in W. B. Honey, Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East (London, 1945), pls 81 and 102 (both in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain (London, 1953), pl. 113B (ex-Eumorfopoulos Collection). 參閱：可參見牛津阿什莫林博物館所藏一件類似器物。荷蘭呂伐登的普林塞斯霍夫博物館另藏一例（高 37 公分），參見 Eva Strober，Ming Porcelain for a Globalized Trade（斯圖加特，2013 年），圖錄編號 40，頁 132–133；另參見 B. Harrison，Pusaka Heirloom Jars of Borneo（牛津，1990 年），圖版 77（即上述同一件器物）。 本拍品屬於現存少數以植物學家約翰・崔斯坎特爵士（Sir John Tradescant，卒於 1638 年）命名的罐類器物之一。崔斯坎特曾收藏一件此類器物，該器於 1659 年贈予伊萊亞斯・阿什莫爾（Elias Ashmole），其後捐贈予牛津的阿什莫林博物館（Ashmolean Museum）。該館於 1683 年正式開館。 其他例證尚見於史丹佛大學坎托藝術中心（藏品編號 1961.27）及雅加達中央博物館的收藏。相近器物亦見於 W. B. Honey，Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East（倫敦，1945 年），圖版 81 及 102（兩件均藏於維多利亞與亞伯特博物館）；以及 S. Jenyns，Ming Pottery and Porcelain（倫敦，1953 年），圖版 113B（原屬尤莫福普洛斯收藏）。