拍品專文
This unusual form with its pinched sides is taken from a silver ingot, a tradable currency during the Ming and Qing periods. Its shape was replicated in both ceramics and in works of art during the mid-Ming period, and continued into the Qing dynasty.
See an identical example sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 2006, lot 105.
See an identical example sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 2006, lot 105.