SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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CIZHOU CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Song/Yuan Dynasty, 12th-14th century
The slightly domed cover reserve-painted with elaborate peony sprays surrounded by a geometric border, the cover and box with studs which when aligned allow the painting on the two halves to match up and form a classic scroll band around the sides
7 in. (18 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A Cizhou box of similar size and shape, also with reserved decoration on the top of the lid, and dated to the Northern Song dynasty, is in the collection of the Nanjing Museum and illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Arts and Crafts, Ceramics, vol. 2, zhong, Shanghai, 1988, no. 132. A Song dynasty vase from the Jizhou kilns with similarly detailed reserve decoration was excavated in Anhui in 1955, ibid., no. 185. Both reserve decoration and a similar geometric border appear on a Yuan dynasty jar found at Bacun, illustrated by M. Medley, Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 96A.

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