Late Ming Dynasty The interior boldly enamelled depicting nine scholars and their attendants engaged in the 'Four Scholarly Accomplishments', with two pairs playing weiqi next to fenced lotus pond, a group in the pavilion admiring a painting and playing a qin, and further two greeting each other in the garden, the white-ground cavetto decorated with six cartouches enclosing various flowers, the everted rim decorated with chi-dragons reserved on a white ground, the exterior similarly decorated with floral patterns reserved on white and dark blue grounds. 45.4cm (17 7/8in) diam. 注脚 明晚期 銅胎掐絲琺瑯香山九老圖折沿大盤 This lavishly decorated basin belongs to a group of cloisonné enamel wares produced during the late Ming dynasty, likely to tailor the taste of scholars and to enhance the connoisseur's pleasure by adding richness to the decorative scene. See a closely related example, Wanli period, in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, illustrated by B. Quette, ed., Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p.135, fig.7.10; and another related basin illustrated by H.Brinker and A.Lutz in the Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1984, pl.114. 4. See also three related cloisonné enamel basins, late Ming dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 1, Beijing, 2011, nos.170-172. 此類人物故事題材的掐絲琺瑯大盤集中出現在明代中葉之後，是時商品經濟發展，文人參與工藝品設計，於是各類材質的藝術品日趨體現濃厚的文人意趣。參看巴黎裝飾藝術博物館藏一件明萬里人物故事紋大盤，著錄於B. Quette編，《Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties》，紐約，2011年，頁135，圖7.10。另見Pierre Uldry藏一件類似的十六世紀下半夜掐絲琺瑯人物故事大盤，著錄於H.Brinker及A.Lutz，《Chinesisches Cloisonné: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry》，蘇黎世，1984年，圖版114。另見北京故宮博物院藏類似一例，著錄於《故宮博物院藏品大系：琺瑯器編1》，北京，2011年，編號170-172。另見北京故宮博物院藏類似三例，著錄於《故宮博物院藏品大系：琺瑯器編1》，北京，2011年，編號170-172。