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THE PROPERTY OF A SOUTHEAST ASIAN COLLECTOR PROVENANCE

1575 Private collection, Japan.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 1100.
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE Compare with two boxes of this pattern, one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics
PERIOD (1573-1619) in the Idemitsu Collection, pl. 731; the other in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 11,
The domed cover is painted in brilliant shades of cobalt blue with a Tokyo, 1978, pl. 236.
dignitary seated before a screen in a walled garden in discussion with 明萬曆 青花高士圖圓蓋盒 雙圈六字楷書款
two scholars and fanked by attendants, all within a raised medallion.
The rounded sides are decorated with four shaped panels containing
fruiting and fowering sprigs, birds and butterfies, beneath a triple-
lozenge border on top and a key-fret border around the foot. Both
the box and cover are bound with a metal rim.

10º in. (26 cm.) diam., Japanese box

$40,000-60,000

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