Välvt lock med dekor i underglasyrblått med dignitet i samtal med två lärda män omgivna av uppassare i trädgård med murar, allt i en upphöjd reserv. Runt sidorna fyra paneler med blommande fruktkvistar, fåglar och fjärilar. Underdelen dekorerad med drakar stridande om flammande pärlor. Sex karaktärers märke inom dubbla cirklar. Diameter 22,5 cm.
Ask och lock ursprungligen ej sammanhörande men från samma period. Insidesnagg.
Proveniens
From the collection of Rolf Schmitz (1927-2018). Purchased in London in the late 1970s, thence by descent.
Utställningar
Compare a box of this type and decoration (lower) at Sothebys Hong Kong, Important Chinese Art, lot 3675, 5 April 2017.
Compare a box at Boston Museum of Fine art, Credit Line
John Gardner Coolidge Collection, Accession Number, 46.489a-b.
Litteratur
For comparable pieces in litterature, see a box from the Qing court collection and still in Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 181;
Another box from the collection of the Zwinger in Dresden, is published in Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Staaliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 1982, p. 12; another in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated in Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, London, 1978, pl. 212;
Another box, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 2, pl. 93; and a further example, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, was included in the Museum's exhibition Ming Blue-and-White. An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, Philadelphia, 1949, and is illustrated in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, vol. XLIV, no. 223, Autumn 1949, pl. 141.
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