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An unusual Qingbai ‘double-bird’ box and cover
Southern Song Dynasty
Comprising two circular boxes joined at the centre, the covers
modelled as a pair of birds with heads turned to one another, each
with long upright tail feathers, covered overall with a pale greyish-
blue glaze.
9cm wide (2).
HK$15,000 - 20,000
US$1,900 - 2,600
南宋 青白釉雙鳥蓋盒
See a very similar Qingbai box and cover dated to the Song Dynasty, 223
illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Jingdezhen Wares: The Yuan
Evolution, Hong Kong, 1984, p.144, pl.67.
蓋盒的蓋面仿鳥，雙鳥首相對，鳥尾對持，仿佛而與攀談。器蓋與器
身子母口相合，兩蓋盒彼此相連。整器施青白釉，造型別具一格。
一對非常相似的青白釉鴛鴦蓋盒，著錄於香港東方陶瓷協會編，《江
西景德鎮：元瓷的演變》，香港，1984年，頁144，圖67。
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A Qingbai russet-decorated ‘double quail’ box and
cover
Southern Song Dynasty
Formed as two conjoined circular boxes, covered on the interior
and around the exterior with a translucent pale grey-blue glaze, the
similarly glazed cover modelled as a conjoined pair of quail with
russet-brown splashes.
8.2cm wide
HK$20,000 - 30,000
US$2,600 - 3,900
南宋 青白釉雙鳥形蓋盒
蓋盒為兩圓形器身相連，盒蓋作雙雞相互對望，頭尾方向一致。雞蛋
頭冠、尾羽點染褐彩。整器造型小巧，滿施青白釉，南宋風格明顯，
與海上所打撈發掘的南宋沉船遺物風格相近。
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A small biscuit and brown slip-decorated lobed
box and cover
Song Dynasty
The box and cover left unglazed revealing the ivory-white biscuit,
decorated on top in the centre with a lobed cartouche enclosing a
crane in flight amidst clouds on a maroon-brown ground.
14.5cm diam. (2).
HK$20,000 - 30,000
US$2,600 - 3,900
宋 素胎褐彩花葉紋瓜棱蓋盒
蓋盒子母口相合，外壁瓜棱造型，蓋面上雙線菱形開光內褐彩剔地描
繪花卉紋樣進行裝飾，蓋盒口沿外壁均繪褐彩弦紋各一周。整器精
當，造型集多種技法於一身，足見構思之用心與巧妙。
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