MING DYNASTY, FIRST HALF 15TH CENTURY

Compare the very similar cloisonné enamel box and cover dated to the Xuande period, but of slightly larger size (13.7 cm. diam.), from the Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2130. The Shorenstein box had previously been featured by Spink & Son in The Minor Arts of China, IV, London, 1989, no. 83. See, also, the cloisonné enamel box of smaller size (8.4 cm. diam.) decorated with a similar lotus scroll on the sides, but with a different floral scroll pattern surrounding the lotus blossom in the center of the cover, formerly in the collection of Sir Harry Garner and now in the Pierre Uldry collection, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, 1989. pl. 12, where it is dated first half 15th century.