A WHITE PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER

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A WHITE PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER
CHOSON DYNASTY (18TH CENTURY)

Of square shape with high walls and flat base, fitted with a domed and bevelled square cover, decorated in a smooth and milk-white glaze with even sheen, base unglazed- 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 2 7/8 in. (8.7 x 8.7 x 7 cm.), hairline crack at one corner of lid and short hairline crack from top of lower section, tiny chip one edge
Literature
Akaboshi Goro and Heihachiro Nakamura, Korean Ceramics--Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Dynasty (Weatherhill, Tankosha: New York, Tokyo & Kyoto 1975) pl. 87.

For another white-glazed box and cover see Koyama Fujio et al, Korean Ceramics of the Yi Dynasty in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Vol. 14, (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1956), pl. 129.

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