A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE FLORAL-LOBED BOX AND COVER

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE FLORAL-LOBED BOX AND COVER
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

Painted in rich inky-blue tones of cobalt to the pentagonal lobes on the cover with two scholars in discussion in a garden setting, flanked by their attendants, the sides with continuous scenes of further scholars before young boys carrying fans, books and baskets of food, the rims with raised flower-scroll borders, the base polished effacing the mark (glaze fritting to rim with some restoration, fine body hairline to cover)
11 1/2 in. (29.5 cm.) wide, box

来源

A Japanese private collection

拍品专文

Although Wanli boxes are known to have been made in a number of shapes - circular, square and rectangular - those of pentagonal form are quite rare. Compare with a wucai example from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts included in the exhibition Catalogue Imperial Overglaze-Enamelled Wares in the Late Ming Dynasty, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1995, no. 29.