A Blue and White Cushion-Shaped Box and Cover

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A Blue and White Cushion-Shaped Box and Cover
Wanli six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double rectangle and of the period (1573-1619)
The cover painted on top with two dragons contesting a flaming pearl within a quatrefoil cartouche reserved on a rectangular diaper ground above panels of fruiting peach trees within raised borders on the rounded sides and panels of babao and lingzhi fungus at the indented corners, with a band of penciled scrolls at the rim, the box painted with panels of birds perched in blossoming and fruiting branches on the sides and flower sprigs at the corners below a band of leafy scroll, raised on a foot of corresponding shape
7 5/8in. (19.3cm.) long, stand
Falk Collection no. 263.

拍品专文

A Wanli-marked box of similar size and with the same decoration as the Falk box is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, and is illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Dragon-motif Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, no. 37. A similarly shaped, smaller Jiajing box with a design of dragons and children, also in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated in the Porcelain of the National Palace Museum - Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book V, Hong Kong, 1963, pp. 44-5, pl. 8.