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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE ‘XIXIANG JI’ SEAL The cover depicts a narrative from Scene 13, Book 4 of Xixiang Ji
PASTE BOX AND COVER (Romance of the Western Chamber). Here, student Zhang plays the
18th century guqin and his lover, Yingying, and her maid, Hongniang, interpret
Of rounded cylindrical shape and painted in dark tones on the this as his feelings of love towards her. This romantic scene is the
domed cover with a scene from Xixiang Ji (Romance of the Western highlight of the play. For a larger box and cover from the Shanghai
Chamber), a gentleman seated at a moon window and two elegant Museum with the same scene depicted, see Sir Michael Butler and
ladies on a garden terrace outside, the base with an unusual Wang Qingzheng, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the
beribboned gathering of objects including a brush, ink cake and ruyi Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Beauty’s Enchantment,
scepter. Shanghai, 2006, pp.246-247, no.86; and for a smaller box with
2 3/16in (5.6cm) diam a similar scene, see Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and
Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of
$800 - 1,200 Chinese Art, Section 3, revised edition, London, 2004, p.75, B602.

十八世紀 漿胎青花「西廂記」人物故事圖印泥蓋盒 For a small cylindrical box and cover with a similar scene, also painted
with landscapes to the narrow sides, and identified as a depiction of
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 filial piety, see Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, a joint
exhibition from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and the
Provenance: Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1998 - May 1999, pp.142-
Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929 143, no.61, where it is identified as a precious medicine container on
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929-present account of an inscription in underglaze blue to the base.
來源：
William Rhinelander Stewart 遺贈，1929 年
大都會藝術博物館，1929 年迄今

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