清 五彩羅漢圖杯一組十八件“大清雍正年製”款

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英文品名：A SET OF EIGHTEEN WUCAI CUPS EACH PAINTED WITH A LUOHAN, EACH BASE BEARING A SIX-CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK 尺寸：L:7cm;H:7.5cm 瓷質五彩。一組十八件。杯作敞口深腹、圈足之鈴鐺式，通體白釉瑩白。每杯一面繪一羅漢：或袒胸持扇，或乘蕉渡水，或倚松談道，形貌各異，設色以粉、綠、藍為主；另一面墨書七言偈語，下鈐紅彩小印。杯底書青花六字雙圈「大清雍正年製」款。十八杯合為十八羅漢一套，畫工清雅，書法娟秀，為清代瓷質茶具。十八羅漢為佛教護法聖眾，由十六羅漢發展而來。唐代畫傳十六羅漢，至五代宋初，加入賓頭盧尊者與達摩多羅尊者，遂成十八。各羅漢各有式樣：騎象、騎鹿、開心、長眉、托塔、降龍、伏虎等，分別護持佛法。清代瓷器上常成套繪十八羅漢，每杯一尊，背題偈語，合為一套，置於禪堂、書齋，既為茶具，亦含護法平安之意。 A set of eighteen porcelain wucai bell-shaped cups on small foot rings, each on a white glazed body. One side of each cup is painted with a luohan, some bare-chested with a fan, some crossing water on a banana leaf, some leaning on pines, the eighteen arhats all distinct in poses, rendered in soft pink, green and blue. The reverse carries a seven-character verse in ink, followed by a small red seal. Each base bears an underglaze-blue six-character double-circle mark of the Yongzheng period. Elegant painting and calligraphy make a complete Qing tea-cup set. The eighteen luohan are Buddhist saintly protectors that evolved from the earlier sixteen arhats. Tang painting depicted sixteen; by the Five Dynasties and early Song two more, Pindola and Dharmatala, were added to make eighteen. Each has his own iconography: riding elephant or deer, open-chested, long-eyebrowed, pagoda-bearing, dragon-subduing or tiger-subduing. On Qing porcelain they were often painted as a set of eighteen, one per cup, each with a verse on the reverse, displayed in a chapel or study both as tea ware and as an auspicious protection.

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