Lot 1100
1100
A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER
A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER

Details
A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The domed cover painted in brilliant cobalt tones with a raised medallion containing a dignitary seated before a screen in a walled garden, in discussion with two scholars and flanked by attendants, above the rounded sides with four shaped panels containing fruiting and flowering sprigs, birds and butterflies, with formal borders on the rims and a key-fret border around the foot, the rims metal-bound
10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) diam., Japanese box
Provenance
A Japanese private collection

Lot Essay

Compare with two boxes of this pattern, one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, fig. 731; the other in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Kodansha series, Tokyo, 1978, fig. 236.

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