GRANDE BOITE COUVERTE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC

CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME-XVIIEME SIECLE

Details

GRANDE BOITE COUVERTE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME-XVIIEME SIECLE
The centre of the cover is decorated with an openwork coin, surrounded by roundels of Buddhist lions amidst cruciform clouds. The box is finely painted with stylized lotus and foliage. The base has a four-character fugui jiaqi mark ('fine vessel for the rich and honorable') within a square in underglaze blue; firing cracks.

11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) diam.

Provenance

From the collection of the Swedish painter Professor Oscar Björck (1860–1929).
Collection of a French private collector.

Literature

Nationalmusei uställningskataloger n:r 26, Utställning av Äldre Kinesiskt Konsthantverk ur Svenska Samlingar, Katalogen är utarbetad av Erik Wettergren och Ake Stavenow, Stockholm, 1928, No. 339.

Exhibited

National Museum Stockholm, Utställning av Äldre Kinesiskt Konsthantverk ur Svenska Samlingar, Stockholm, 1928, No. 339.

Further details

A BLUE AND WHITE 'BUDDHIST LION' BOX AND COVER
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Professor Oscar Björck was born and educated in Sweden, he spent much of his life in the artist colony in Skagen, Denmark, as well as Paris, Munich and Italy. His works can be seen in the collection of the Copenhagen Art Museum and the National Museum of Stockholm.

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