A Large Qingbai Molded Lobed Box and Cover

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Details

A Large Qingbai Molded Lobed Box and Cover
Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century
The slightly domed cover finely molded in relief with a peony spray within an octagonally lobed border corresponding to the lobes of the sides, covered with a glaze of pale blue tone, the interior also partially glazed
5 7/8in. (15cm.) diam.
Falk Collection no. 80.

Provenance

J.J. Klejman, New York, April 1967.

Literature

W.B.R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, p. 98, pl. 117.

Exhibited

Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 91.

Lot Essay

A smaller box of the same form and decorated with similar molding in the collection of the Cultural Relics Bureau at Quxian in Zhejiang province, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 16, Song Yuan Qingbaici, Shanghai, 1984, no. 61. The molded decoration on the Zhejiang eight-lobed box shares with the Falk box the fine outlines and details, as well as the form of the peonies, although the Zhejiang example depicts three blossoms, rather than the single bloom on the Falk piece.

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