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拍品专文
Wucai octagonal jars of this design appear to be rather rare, with the exception of an almost identical jar and cover in the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Dr. Francis W. Lewis Collection, accession no. 1905-202,a, the only difference being that the finial of the current lot remains intact.
Several examples of Wanli mark and period square, hexagonal, and fan-shaped boxes have been published, as well as those with lobed rather than flat facets. For a hexagonal example, see the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book III, Hong Kong, 1989, pls. 6-6c (fig. 1), and one sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 821 (fig. 2). A lobed hexagonal box attributed as a cricket box is found in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 35, no. 32; and in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated in Ming-Ch’ing, Chicago, 1964. A pair of blue and white fan-shaped ‘dragon’ box and covers from the Edward T. Chow Collection were sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 14. A lobed pentafoil box without a finial on the cover also decorated with dragons is found in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The Chinaware Volume - The First Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 154-155.
Several examples of Wanli mark and period square, hexagonal, and fan-shaped boxes have been published, as well as those with lobed rather than flat facets. For a hexagonal example, see the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book III, Hong Kong, 1989, pls. 6-6c (fig. 1), and one sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 821 (fig. 2). A lobed hexagonal box attributed as a cricket box is found in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 35, no. 32; and in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated in Ming-Ch’ing, Chicago, 1964. A pair of blue and white fan-shaped ‘dragon’ box and covers from the Edward T. Chow Collection were sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 14. A lobed pentafoil box without a finial on the cover also decorated with dragons is found in the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum, illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The Chinaware Volume - The First Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 154-155.