A PAINTED CIZHOU CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

Details

A PAINTED CIZHOU CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The box and slightly domed cover are both covered in white slip, and the cover is painted in brown slip with a foliate motif, all under a clear glaze.
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box

Provenance

Kitayama Fine Arts, Tokyo.

Literature

Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Box and Covers in East Asia, Izumi, 1984, no. 40.

Exhibited

Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Box and Covers in East Asia, Izumi, 13-18 March 1984.

Lot Essay

A circular covered box of this distinctive compressed form, also decorated with a floral spray painted in dark slip, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 28, (Shanxi taoci), Shanghai, 1984, no. 37. Another similarly painted circular box and cover was formerly in the Falk collection and sold at Christie’s New York, The Falk Collection I: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 October 2001, lot 63.

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