AN UNUSUAL YINGQING CIRCULAR COSMETIC BOX AND COVER

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AN UNUSUAL YINGQING CIRCULAR COSMETIC BOX AND COVER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

The interior applied with three cups, a central lotus bloom extending out into three branches bearing leaves, buds and pods, and swimming ducks in high relief below the rim, three of the buds painted in iron-brown, the rest of the box and domed cover covered with a transparent pale blue glaze (small rim chips)
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) diam., box

Exhibited

Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1985, Catalogue no. 134

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 71.

Yingqing boxes with similar moulded decoration on the interior include one illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, pl. 448; and another from the Mount Trust Collection, included in the O. C. S. Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, Catalogue no. 124.

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