外国人眼中的“中国白”|中国白的影响（四）——约翰 盖尔 - 憨鼠网

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编者按：由柯玫瑰(Rose Kerr)、约翰•盖尔(John Ayers)所著《中国白——德化白瓷》(Blanc de Chine—porcelain from Dehua)于2002年经新加坡亚洲文明博物馆出版，是继唐纳利《中国白——福建德化瓷》之后的一本专门研究德化白瓷的专著，影响甚为深远。

该书收录的都为国外研究德化白瓷的知名学者所撰写德化白瓷研究资料。包括柯玫瑰的“德化器物款识介绍”，海蒂(Heidi Tan)的“鉴赏家探访”，约翰•盖尔的“中国白的影响”，何翠媚(Chuimei Ho)的“考古眼光中的中国白”，郭勒逊(Kenson Kwok)的“德化雕塑结构的一点看法”，埃娃•施特勒伯(Eva Strober)的“德累斯顿的斯特朗大帝收藏的德化瓷”，以及附录介绍等七个部分，从不同角度介绍了德化白瓷。与此同时，该书收录的160件德化窑精品，为Hickley家藏，后捐赠给新加坡亚洲文明博物馆，是了解、品鉴、研究德化白瓷不可多得的艺术精品。

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Blanc de chine:some reflections by John Ayers

中国白的影响(四)——约翰 盖尔

（翻译： 孙延燕）

Alongside this Guanyin model may be set Donnelly's next dating marker; an early European engraving representing another Guanyin group which may confidently be e iden tified as a blanc de Chine one(Fig. 17). The print appears in the border of one page of the Chinese section of W and J. Blaeu's Nieuw Atlas, first published in Amsterdam in 1655, however, according to Phillip Allen, who kindly obtained the illustra tion for me, this identical printing in fact comes from the 667 edition. The maps were taken over from a preceding wor rk by the Jesuit father Martin Martini, who is said to have left China in 1651.

在这个观音模型旁边可能是唐纳利的下一个纪年器物，它是一个早期的欧洲版画代表了另一个观音团体，可能自信地被认为是中国白瓷器(图17)。这张印刷品出现在布劳厄的《新地图集》中文版的一页边上，1655年首次在阿姆斯特丹出版，然而，根据菲利普•艾伦的说法，他帮我弄到了这张插图，这张完全相同的印刷品实际上来自1667的版本。这些地图是从耶稣会教士马丁•马提尼之前的工作接管过来的，据说他在1651年离开了中国。

(Figure 17: Guanyin:engraving from Blaeu’s Nieuw Atlas,1655. 图17: 观音: 版画依据布劳厄的《纽约地图集》，1655年。)

The engraving shows Guanyin seated on a rocky throne and accompanied by her aco- lytes, Shancai and Longnu, below; to left and right are the vase of heavenly dew and a bird. Donnelly was unable to trace any porcelain original corresponding to this, but Phillip Allen has kindly allowed me to show a group now in his possession which is unquestion ably a very close match -and which thus represents a model already existing in 1655, if not indeed before 1651(Fig. 18). Here is the same pose with hands joined on the lap and the same arrangement of the draperies and mantle, the same jewelled pendants, the same base, also the two acolytes, and above these the nectar flask on her right and the bird on the left except that in the engraving process these were reversed On Mr Allen's figures the bird is unfortunately missing, broken off, but curiously enough, very soon after seeing this piece another of our members, Mr Wikramaratna, was fortunate enough to find one in whic the bird was complete, alth