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A CIRCULAR BLUE AND WHITE ‘PEONY’ BOX Compare a box of the same design sold in our London
AND COVER rooms, 17th march 1981, lot 28. a similar example, but with
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD a butterfly painted to the center of the cover in the palace
museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang
the shallow rounded sides supported on a tapered foot, the Qingdai yuyao ciqi [porcelains from the Qing Imperial kilns in
exterior painted with meandering foliate stems issuing lush the palace museum Collection], vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, pl. 16;
peony blossoms, the tones of the cobalt carefully modulated and a box of the same design sold at Christie’s hong Kong,
to achieve a nuanced, painterly effect, the domed cover 2nd may 1994, lot 648.
similarly adorned, the base with a six-character mark in
underglaze blue (2) $ 20,000-30,000
Diameter 6⅝ in., 16.8 cm
清康熙 青花纏枝牡丹紋蓋盒
《大清康熙年製》款

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