拍品 1458
1458
A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE INGOT-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
The Property of a Private Japanese Collector
A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE INGOT-SHAPED BOX AND COVER

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

Decorated in saturated cobalt-blue tone to the upper surface of the cover with a pair of dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' in a raised panel of ingot-shape, the rounded sides of both box and cover with borders of striding dragons facing opposite directions, the rims with thin saw-tooth borders inclosing demi-florets, the reign mark is written in a vertical line to the base
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

拍品專文

Compare with two boxes of this very rare shape and pattern, one in the Musee Guimet, Paris, illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, La Porcelain Ming, Fribourg, 1978, fig. 213; the other in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, fig. 435.

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