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A BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE BOX
AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD 5 ¿ in. (13 cm.) square, Japanese wood box
(1573-1619)
明萬曆 青花長命富貴倭角方盒 六字楷書款
HK$260,000-350,000
US$34,000-45,000
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The gently domed cover is well painted in bright tones of cobalt blue
with a central panel containing a scholar’s rock flanked by sprays of peony
and chrysanthemum on either side, above shaped cartouches alternately
enclosing flowers on the sides against a ground of floral sprays at the
canted corners, repeated on the sides of the box raised on a straight foot of
conforming shape.
PROVENANCE
A Japanese family collection
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 1039
Boxes of square or rectangular shape with canted corners were popular
during the Jiajing and Wanli periods. For example, see a Wanli-marked
rectangular box and cover with lotus scrolls in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in, Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong
Kong, 2000, p. 197, no. 184; a Jiajing-marked square box and cover of
similar design, sold at Christie’s London, 5 December 1994, lot 195; and a
Wanli-marked square box and cover with birds in the central panel, sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1427.
來源
日本家族舊藏
香港佳士得，2004 年 4 月 26 日，拍品 1039 號
盒四方形，倭角，子母口。通體青花紋飾。蓋面開光花石紋，巧石居中，
左伴牡丹，右隨雅菊，蓋側四開光，交替繪以牡丹、菊花，間以上下
折枝花卉紋。底青花書「大明萬曆年製」楷書款。
方形倭角盒於嘉萬二朝皆有燒造。參考一件萬曆款青花纏枝蓮紋長方
盒，藏於北京故宮，載於故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系《青花釉裏紅
（中）》，香港，2000 年，頁 197，圖版 184 號；一件紋飾與此近乎
相同的嘉靖款方盒，於 1994 年 12 月 5 日倫敦佳士得拍賣，拍品 195 號；
以及一件萬曆款花鳥紋方盒，於 2005 年 11 月 28 日香港佳士得拍賣，
拍品 1427 號。