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Chinese export porcelain Bencharong bowl for the Asian market (Straits porcelain) decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with Buddhist themes in the Norasingh style of Thailand over a black ground, Daoguang reign.

Stock Number: 5185

Large Chinese export porcelain Bencharong bowl made for the Asian market (Straits porcelain) decorated in opaque enamels from the famille rose (fencai) palette with Buddhist themes in the Norasingh style of Thailand over a black ground, the inside glazed green, c. 1840, Daoguang reign, Qing dynasty, h. 9 cm, 3½ in; d. 17 cm, 6¾ in. 4-19271 Bespoke box.

Illustrated: Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, by A. Varela Santos, 2018/2019, cat. 81.

Literature:

Later Ceramics in South-East Asia, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries, by B. Harrisson, 1995 Oxford, colour plate 41 for a similar bowl at the Princessehof Museum, The Netherlands, # 2585 that was recovered from a shipwreck from 1728 in the Gulf of Thailand;

The Great Fortune, Das Grobe Glück, 2002 Berlin, by G. Weishaupt, p. 371, cat. 421 for a similar bowl;

Chinesisches Porzellan, by E. Zimmermann, 1923 Leipzig, plate 151 for a similar bowl, also with a metal rim, dated Qianlong;

China Rediscovered. The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics, by G. Manginis, London 2016, pp. 22/23, cat. 01 for a similar but larger covered bowl;

• Bencharong: Chinese Porcelain for Siam, by D.F. Rooney, 2017 Bangkok, p. 40 for a similar bowl.

Bencharong can be translated as five-coloured, even if in reality far more were used. This porcelain was manufactured for the Royal Siamese court.

中國外銷粉“賓乍隆”大碗,專為亞洲市場訂製(南洋瓷),器身外部以黑色為地,繪泰國諾拉塞式佛教主題紋飾,器內施綠釉,約1840年,清道光,高9釐米,3½英吋;口徑17釐米,6¾英吋。

圖示:《中國陶瓷及工藝精品》,作者阿.瓦瑞拉.山度士,編號 81。

參考文獻:

•《十六世紀至二十世紀東南亞陶瓷》,作者B. Harrison,1995年牛津出版,参见彩色圖版 41荷蘭公主瓷器博物館藏編號為2585的一件相近盌,此盌於1728年在泰國灣沉船打撈上來。

•《偉大的財富》,作者G. Weishaupt,2002年柏林出版,參見第371頁,編號421一件相近盌;

•《中國瓷器》,作者E. Zimmermann,1923年萊比錫出版,參見圖版151一件乾隆朝帶金 屬鑲邊的相似盌;

•《重新發現中國,貝納基博物館藏中國陶瓷》,作者G. Manginis,2016年倫敦出版,參見第22、23 頁,編號01一件相似但尺寸較大的蓋盌;

•《賓乍隆:中國出口泰國瓷器》,作者D.F. Rooney,2017年曼谷出版,見第40頁一件近似盌。

◆ 賓乍隆可以翻譯成「五色」,但實際上使用的顏色不只五種。這款瓷器是為暹羅皇家宮廷製造的。