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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 明萬曆ǎ青花高ૈ圖長方蓋盒ǎ單行Ս字楷書款
WRITING BOX AND COVER
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WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1620) 5PVSOFU
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The top of the cover is decorated in vibrant tones of cobalt blue with
a shaped panel enclosing a scene of three scholars and two attendants
in a garden beside a floor screen. Each side of the cover is decorated
with a further scene of scholars and attendants in a garden setting,
and the interior is decorated with a large flowering peony branch
enclosed on the sides by further flowering branches. The box is
decorated on the interior with a fruiting tree enclosed by branches
on each side, with each exterior side decorated with branches of the
'Three Friends of Winter' (pine, bamboo and prunus) above the flat
plinth decorated around the sides with cloud motifs.
12¿ in. (30.9 cm.) wide; 8w in. (22.6 cm.) deep
$250,000-350,000

PROVENANCE:
Tournet, Paris, c. 1960.
Private collection of a famous French industrialist.
Marchant, London.
(mark)

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