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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
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.
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.