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拍品專文
This is a rare box, since the majority of wucai circular boxes have pierced lid, such as the example in the Musee Cernuschi, Paris illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, La Porcelain Ming, Office du Livre, 1978, col. pl. 4. The current box, however has very similar decoration to that seen on a blue and white Wanli circular box with solid lid sold in Hong Kong in December 1995, which even bears a similar hexagonal lattice between the ogival panels. Another blue and white box with a similar arrangement of decoration and employing the same hexagonal lattice, although with scholars in landscape on the upper panel of the lid, was sold in our London rooms in November 1999, lot 192.
The decorative designs on wucai and blue and white porcelains of similar form were often closely related. An example of this is the blue and white box in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, (Hong Kong, Woods, 1987), no. 162, which bears a similar design to that seen on the Cernuschi box mentioned above.
The decorative designs on wucai and blue and white porcelains of similar form were often closely related. An example of this is the blue and white box in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qing-zheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, (Hong Kong, Woods, 1987), no. 162, which bears a similar design to that seen on the Cernuschi box mentioned above.