A YUEYAO CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

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A YUEYAO CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
10TH CENTURY

The domed cover crisply and well-carved with a central medallion of a parrot and a large blossom within a double bow-string border surrounded by a band of feathery leaf scroll, the box raised on a slightly flared foot, covered inside and out with a grayish-green glaze continuing over the footrim onto the base, rim of box with pieces missing-- 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) diam., cloth box

Lot Essay

Compare a similar box decorated with a parrot from the collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark included in the exhibition, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum, 1957, Catalogue, no. 261

See also Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Catalogue, Vol. I, 1976, pl. 97, for a similar example in the Hakone Art Museum, Japan; and Kiln Sites of Ancient China, Ancient finds of Pottery and Porcelain, Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, pp. 121-123, for related shards from Zhejiang province excavated near Shanglinhu, Binhu, Ningpo and at Shangyu