Lot 83
83
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN LADY
A RARE MING WUCAI RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER, painted and enamelled on the top with a seated patriarch and attendants below pine within a shaped oval cartouche, the sides with scholars variously at tables or walking, the interior of the box and cover with peony sprays, pine and fruit trees (some restoration to box and cover), Wanli six-character mark and of the period

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A RARE MING WUCAI RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER, painted and enamelled on the top with a seated patriarch and attendants below pine within a shaped oval cartouche, the sides with scholars variously at tables or walking, the interior of the box and cover with peony sprays, pine and fruit trees (some restoration to box and cover), Wanli six-character mark and of the period
31cm. long

Lot Essay

A similar box and cover decorated with the same scenes from the Toyko National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, kodansha Series, vol.I, no.126 and in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol.I, no.923. Compare also the examples illustrated in idem., nos.924 and 926

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