Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-80).

Sotheby's London, 16 December 1980, lot 287.

仇焱之（1910-1980年）收藏

倫敦蘇富比1980年12月16日，編號287

Cécile and Michel Beurdeley, La Céramique Chinoise, Fribourg, 1974, pl. 88.

Cécile and Michel Beurde🐟ley，《La Céramique Chinoise》，弗萊堡，1974年，圖版88

The term shufu refers to a type of glaze known as luanbai, which is more opaque than that of a qingbai glaze and is skily rather than glassy in texture. Shufu wares are identified by the presence of the characters shu and fu ('Privy Council') in their designs and were used during the Yuan dynasty for ceremonies at the Shumi Yuan, a ministry of civil a🐽nd military affairs.

Compare two similarly designed shufu white-glazed dishes, one in the Brooklyn Museum, New York (acc. no. 37.135), the other published in John Ayers, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, vol. II, London, 1964, pl. LXVIII.  Compare also with a related shufu dish in the Place Museum, Taipei, see Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the Palace Museum, Supplement, Taipei, 1978, no.18. See another related shufu dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Catalogue of Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Beijing, 1979, no.65. See also a close example in Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1982, no. 23.

樞府瓷本是元代樞府於景德鎮訂燒之瓷器，特點是色白乳濁如蛋清，裝飾多為印花，又有模印「樞ౠ府」二字者，故名。

此件樞府釉小盤可比較台北故宮藏一件，著錄於《故宮瓷器選萃續輯》，台北，1978年，編號18；以及上海博物館藏一件，著錄於《上海博物館藏瓷器選集》，北京，1979年，編號65; 大維德基金藏一件元代樞府碟亦資參考，見《東洋陶磁》，東京，1982年，偏好23。紐約布魯克林博物館藏一件樞府釉小碟之花紋與本件比較之，館藏編號37.135；Brenda Zara Seligman (1882-1965) 舊藏一件樞府小碟亦可參考之，見John Ayer🤡s,，《The Seligman Collecti🐟on of Oriental Art》，倫敦，卷2，1964年，圖版68。