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本品敞口，弧壁，淺圈足，器形周正。整體圖案以瑩亮嬌嫩的黃釉為地，青花繪製圖案，盤心繪一枝梔子花，兩朵五瓣花正盛放，頂端還繪有一含苞待放花蕾，生機盎然。內壁飾柿子葡萄蓮花和石榴，外壁上下雙圈內繪一圈纏枝芙蓉。底施白釉，中心青花雙圈內書《大明弘治年製》六字雙行楷書款。 盤心主紋飾為梔子花，此花芳香素雅，綠葉白花，格外清麗可愛，既可入藥，亦甚適庭院居室之綴飾，一直深得眾人所喜，南朝梁·蕭綱《詠梔子花》雲：“素華偏可喜，的的半臨池，疑為霜裹葉，复類雪封枝，日斜光隱見，風還影合離。 ”宋·朱淑真《水梔子》：“一根曾寄小峰巒，苦葡香清水影寒。 玉質自然無著意，更宜移就月中看，”故宮博物院藏元代雕漆珍品“張成造”剔紅梔子花紋圓盤（圖4）中以寫實手法在盤中雕刻一朵碩大盛開的雙瓣梔子花，間有四朵含苞欲放的花蕾，枝葉舒卷自如，肥腴圓潤，可知此花不但為歷代文人雅士所喜，亦極受皇室宮廷珍愛。 明代以降，宮廷諸類工藝品多見梔子花裝飾，就瓷器一項而言，折枝梔子花果紋盤正是明代宮廷獨具特色的品類，創燒於宣德時期，流行至正德一朝而止，彼時禦器廠竭力運用多種方式對其進行裝飾，以致品類豐富，除白釉醬彩之外，尚見藍地白花，黃地青花，白地青花，可謂品類眾多，流行廣泛，歷數朝而不衰，由此可證明代皇帝對其癡愛之深。 早在宣德一朝有見黃地青花及梔子花紋飾（圖1），中有間斷，成化年間復燒。在宣、成兩朝，盤底多素胎無釉,弘治、正德年間，梔子花紋盛極一時，然至嘉靖一朝，僅出數例後停燒。Soame Jenyns 著作載有前四朝之例，見《Ming Pottery and Porcelain》，修訂版，倫敦，1988年，圖版102-104，彩圖版H，分別出自大英博物館、Riesco 及大維德爵士收藏。維多利亞與艾伯特博物館藏有一與本品極為相似一例（圖2），大維德爵士收藏一例，現存倫敦大英博物館（圖3），該盤也載於 Margaret Medley，《Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares》，大維德中國藝術基金會，倫敦，1978年，圖版III，編號26，同書錄有一相類正德年款梔子花紋盤例，編號29，另見弘治及正德年款白地褐彩梔子花紋盤，編號27及28。與本品相同之盤台北故宮博物院存數件紋飾，如《故宮藏瓷．明青花瓷》，卷4，香港，1963年，圖版11。 在拍場上此盤深為資深藏家所愛，2022年4月29日香港蘇富比劉鑾雄專場一明弘治 黄地青花梔子花盤以HKD 7,560,000成交，另外一大維德爵士收藏的明弘治黄地青花梔子花盤於香港蘇富比2017春季拍賣會以HKD 11,500,000 成交，跟早的一例可參考2013年11月27日香港佳士得編號3114，以HKD 7,240,000成交。 The shallow rounded sides sitting on a tapered foot to an everted rim, painted in shaded tone of cobalt blue reserved on a rich yellow enamel ground, the medallion centre depicts a leafy branch bearing two five-petalled gardenia blooms and a bud on the top, encircled in the cavetto by fruiting branches of grape, pomegranate, peach and a ribboned lotus bouquet, all between double-line borders, the underside decorated with a continuous scroll of blooming hibiscus borne on a slender meandering stem between double lines at the rim and foot. The base covered in transparent glaze with blue and white Hongzhi six character mark. Dishes of this gardenia design in underglaze-blue reserved on yellow ground first produced in the Xuande period, refer to a similar Xuande dish (picture1) in National Palace Museum,Taipei, and a Xuande dish in Edward Chow and T.Y. Chao collections. This floral design on yellow enamel found was popular in the Hongzhi (1488-1505) and Zhengde reign period, with floral design either in pomegranate or gardenia, but not produced after jiajing period. Similar dishes produced from Xuande to Jiajing are published in Ming Pottery and Porcelain by Soame Jenyns in London, 1988, on plates 102 to 104. A similar Hongzhi dish(picture 2) is collected in Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. C.320-1921). Compare another similar dishes in British Museum(picture 3) published in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978,III ,no. 26., and John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1999, p. 118, no. 65, together with a dish of identical floral and fruit design but in a brown and white colour palette, p. 119, no. 66. Dishes of this design are in the collection of National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, Hong Kong, 1963, no. 11, and Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 256, no. 231. Hongzhi dishes in this form are adored by numerous professional collectors in auction rooms. A similar Hongzhi yellow-ground and underglaze-blue dish was sold for HKD 7,560,000 in Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 29 April 2022 from the private collection of Joseph Lau. Another dish formerly in the collection of Sir Percival David was sold for HKD 11,500,000 in Sotheby’s Hong Kong 4 April 2017 sales. On 27 Nov 2013, a similar dish from the R.F.A RIESCO collection was sold for HKD 7,240,000. (Lot 3114)