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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR BOX AND DOMED
COVER
Wanli six-character mark and of the period
The rectangular box with indented corners and supported on a short
straight foot, the domed cover painted in vivid blue with a hermit
accompanied by two young attendants gathering herbs on a pine
terrace below misty clouds, the rounded sides of the cover and box
with shaped cartouches containing lingzhi fungus and peach branches,
all against an S-scroll ground, chevron bands at the rims, Japanese
brocade stand, wood box.
15.5cm (6in) wide. (4).
£30,000 - 50,000
CNY270,000 - 450,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明萬曆 青花松下採藥圖倭角長方蓋盒
青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo
Umezawa Gallery, Tokyo

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Mayuyama, Seventy Years,
vol.1, Tokyo, 1976, p.324, no.969.

來源：日本東京古董商繭山龍泉堂
日本東京古董商Umezawa Gallery

出版著錄：《龍泉集芳》卷一，東京，1976年，頁324，編號969

It has been suggested that the function of boxes, such as the present
example, was as a container for a gift of sweetmeats; see J.Harrison-
Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.324,
no.11.129, where a slightly smaller box with similar indented corners
and painted with a single full-frontal dragon is illustrated. See another
related example illustrated by R.L.Hobson, B.Rackham and W.King,
Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, pl.25; see
another example illustrated by A.du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of
Chinese Art at Winchester College, Winchester, 2019, p.34, no.CH43.

Compare with a related blue and white box and cover of similar form,
but painted with dragons, Wanli mark and of the period, which was
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2017, lot 316.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
122 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.