HONGZHI PERIOD (1488-1505)

Similar blue and white boxes and covers, along with Hongzhi-period wares of Eastern shapes, such as pen boxes, kendis and ewers, were discovered in the Lena Shoal wreck, a Chinese junk of unknown destination that sunk off the coast of the Philippines around 1490. A similar example is illustrated in Yuan and Ming Blue and White Ware from Jiangxi, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 69.