拍品 1090
1090
A FINE AND RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
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A FINE AND RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER

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A FINE AND RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Strongly potted with rounded indented corners, the cover painted in vivid purplish-blue tones with an ascending and a descending dragon confronting a 'flaming pearl' above a foaming sea and ruyi cloud-scrolls, the rounded sides of the box and cover with stylised peony scrolls and Precious Emblems at the eight corners, the rims encircled by key-fret
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Boxes of this pattern include one in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, vol. II, Japan, 1990, no. 108; one in the Lauritzen Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, Japan, 1982, pl. 245; one included in the Exhibition of Yuan and Ming Ceramics, The Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 1956, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 163; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 5 December 1995, lot 268.