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219 The tall cylindrical shape of the present lot is unusual. Qingbai boxes
A Qingbai carved oviform box and cover and covers are typically shorter and more shallow. A Qingbai box and
Southern Song Dynasty cover in gourd form but with similar elongated proportions is in the
The box with deep rounded sides, decorated on the lower half of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Song
the body with three large flower heads, the domed cover with a flat Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p.104, no.106.
top, decorated with a band of scrolling foliage, all covered in a thin
translucent crackled sky-blue glaze. 蓋盒青白釉，子母口套合，上下對稱。腹部外壁下方模印花卉紋樣。
13.5cm high (2). 所刻花紋在勻淨的青白釉面上若隱若現，青白相映，素雅恬靜。
HK$120,000 - 180,000 青白釉蓋盒最常見有矮身的器形，此拍品高身的造型較為稀少，因此
US$15,000 - 23,000 更加珍貴。維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館藏一件同類高身的青白釉瓜
式蓋盒，見Rose Kerr編，《Song Dynasty Ceramics》，倫敦，2004
南宋 青白釉花卉紋圓蓋盒 年，頁104，編號106。
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