A CANTON ENAMEL BLUE-GROUND QUATREFOIL BOX, FITTED TRAY AND COVER

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A CANTON ENAMEL BLUE-GROUND QUATREFOIL BOX, FITTED TRAY AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

The lozenge-shaped cover cast with a raised central section as four wavy petals radiating from a flowerhead surmounted by the finial, each petal containing one of the Eight Buddhist Emblems surrounded by flowers and leaves, the remaining four emblems displayed on the angular side amidst a dense floral scroll, with lappet bands around the rims and a further floral meander around the box raised on four bracket feet, all against a rich sapphire-blue ground, the fitted tray on the interior divided into five compartments and enamelled with lotus scrolls on a turquoise ground
10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) across

拍品专文

Compare with a few shaped boxes with trays, enamelled with floral scrolls against a sapphire-blue ground: a square box from the Bejing Palace Museum, was included in the exhibition, Tributes From Guangdong to the Qing Court, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 49 and on the front cover; an octafoil barbed box is illustrated by Shen Zhiyu, The Shanghai Museum of Art, pls. 235 and 236; and a round example with Buddhist emblems is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1999, pl. 137.