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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
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A YUE TRIPLE BOX AND COVER A SMALL MOLDED QINGBAI FLOWER-FORM BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The box is comprised of three conjoined globular compartments, each with a The cover is molded with small chrysanthemum fower heads on top. The box
cover applied with a lotus stem that is twisted together with the other stems and cover are covered with a translucent glaze of pale greenish-blue tone, the
in the center, and is covered overall with a pale greyish-green glaze, except for base is unglazed.
the base and rims revealing the grey body.
2æ in. (7 cm.) diam.
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) wide
$3,000-5,000
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE Walter Bareiss (1919-2007) Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1947) Collection, Sweden, no. 40. Kaikodo Ltd., New York.
Sotheby’s London, 5 November 2008, lot 515.
A very similar qingbai box and cover, but of slightly smaller size, unearth
EXHIBITED from a sutra mound at Wakayama-ken in Japan, and dated to the Southern
Copenhagen, Kunst Industri Museet, Chinese Art, 1950, no. 282. Song dynasty, 13th century, is now in the National Museum, Tokyo, and
Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Chinese Ceramic Treasures: illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 214, no. 289.
a selection from Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, including The Carl Kempe Another qingbai box with similar molded small forets on the cover, dated
Collection, 2002.
Song dynasty, 10th-13th century, is illustrated by H. Li, in Chinese ceramics:
comprehensive survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, New
LITERATURE
B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, York, 1996, no. 290. See, also, the qinbai box with similar molded decoration
1964, pl. 40. on the cover, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 123. A
E. Engel, Chinese Ceramic Treasures: a selection from Ulricehamn East Asian similarity decorated example, but with a mold-impressed studio mark Duan
Museum, including The Carl Kempe Collection, vol. 1, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 263. jia he zi ji (box made by the Duan family) mark on the base, is illustrated in
Ben Janssens Oriental Art 2015 exhibition, Maastricht, pp.70-71.
北宋 越窯三聯蓋盒
南宋 青白釉菊紋蓋盒

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