NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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A SMALL GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The box has straight narrow sides, with the underside angled in to a small ring foot enclosing a recessed base, and with a slightly domed cover. The box and cover are covered with a white slip and a transparent, ivory-tone glaze, which ends in an uneven line around the foot of the box.
3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4845.

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Lot Essay

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).

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