Lot Essay
Previously sold in our Rooms, London, 8 June 1987, lot 6
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN UNUSUAL GREEN-GLAZED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER
Details
AN UNUSUAL GREEN-GLAZED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER
MOULDED DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Crisply moulded to the cover with a quatrefoil medallion containing a riverscape with pavillions and distant mountains framed by a key-fret border, the sides further decorated with two lotus-scroll bands, covered in an even, pale green glaze save for the rims and foot exposing the fine white body--4in. (10.2cm.) long
MOULDED DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Crisply moulded to the cover with a quatrefoil medallion containing a riverscape with pavillions and distant mountains framed by a key-fret border, the sides further decorated with two lotus-scroll bands, covered in an even, pale green glaze save for the rims and foot exposing the fine white body--4in. (10.2cm.) long
Provenance
H.R.N. Norton
Literature
H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, p. 29, pl. 28
Exhibited
O.C.S., London, 1964, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, pl. 95, no. 284 (T.O.C.S., vol. 35).
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst Koln, 1965, Kostbare Chinesische Keramik, Catalogue, pl. 40, no. 95.
O.C.S., London, 1971, The Ceramic Art of China, Catalogue, pl. 170, no. 251
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst Koln, 1965, Kostbare Chinesische Keramik, Catalogue, pl. 40, no. 95.
O.C.S., London, 1971, The Ceramic Art of China, Catalogue, pl. 170, no. 251