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    Sale 2178

    FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

    Hong Kong

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    1 November 2004

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    • AN UNUSUAL YINGQING CIRCULAR C
    Lot 1134

    AN UNUSUAL YINGQING CIRCULAR COSMETIC BOX AND COVER

    Price realised

    HKD 59,750

    Estimate

    HKD 50,000 - HKD 70,000

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    AN UNUSUAL YINGQING CIRCULAR COSMETIC BOX AND COVER
    SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

    The interior applied with three cups, a central lotus bloom extending out into three branches bearing leaves, buds and pods, and swimming ducks in high relief below the rim, three of the buds painted in iron-brown, the rest of the box and domed cover covered with a transparent pale blue glaze (small rim chips)
    4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) diam., box

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    Literature and exhibited

    Exhibited

    Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1985, Catalogue no. 134


    Lot Essay

    Previously sold in our London Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 71.

    Yingqing boxes with similar moulded decoration on the interior include one illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, pl. 448; and another from the Mount Trust Collection, included in the O. C. S. Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, Catalogue no. 124.

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