Lot Essay
This box could be one of the pair of boxes included in the sale of Yamanaka & Co. Inc. property sold in New York, 1943, Cat. no. 996.
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REPUBLIC PERIOD
Details
A YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE RUYI-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
REPUBLIC PERIOD
The ruyi-shaped cover is decorated on the top with a cartouche framed by double gilt lines of conforming shape, depicting five boys at play in a fenced garden with rocks and bamboo, the sides with bats between lotus scrolls on a yellow ground. The sides of the box are decorated with a register of endless knots dividing prunus scrolls, above a moulded band of scrolling lotus in gold enamels which extends to the base bearing an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The interior of the box and cover are enamelled turquoise.
4 1/4 in. (10.7 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
REPUBLIC PERIOD
The ruyi-shaped cover is decorated on the top with a cartouche framed by double gilt lines of conforming shape, depicting five boys at play in a fenced garden with rocks and bamboo, the sides with bats between lotus scrolls on a yellow ground. The sides of the box are decorated with a register of endless knots dividing prunus scrolls, above a moulded band of scrolling lotus in gold enamels which extends to the base bearing an apocryphal Qianlong mark. The interior of the box and cover are enamelled turquoise.
4 1/4 in. (10.7 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Taji Shuichi Collection
Literature
Taji Shuichi, Porcelain of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 43
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Nick Wilson
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