NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

Boxes of this shape can also be found in Ding ware. A Ding box and cover of similar shape is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 435, no. 1433, where the author cites a similar box and cover discovered in 1985 amongst a group of Ding white porcelains from a tomb at Nanxinzhuang, Haidian district, Beijing municipality, dated to the early Jin period (AD 1125-1160).