A DOUCAI ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER

KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)

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A DOUCAI ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)
The box stands on four delicately moulded raised scroll feet, and the cover of the box is finely decorated with two birds perched on flowering camellia branches, the design delineated in pale shades of cobalt blue. The sides of the box and cover are decorated with a matched design of bamboo, plantain, and flowers growing amongst pierced rocks in a fenced garden.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, box

Provenance

Collection of Montague Meyer, sold at Christie’s London, 14 April 1980, lot 286
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30 April to 2 May 1991, lot 125
C. C. Teng & Co., Taipei, illustrated on the cover of their 1992 calendar and for the month of November

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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot with a smaller rectangular seal paste box dated to the Yongzheng period standing on four scroll feet published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Small refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009, p. 281, pl. 285, decorated to the box base with a related foliage design, but to the cover with dragon and phoenix.

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