A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE WRITING BOX AND COVER

Lot 882
21.09.2023 17:00UTC -04:00
Classic
Vendu
$ 226 800
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementEtats-Unis, New York
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ID 1007338
Lot 882 | A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE WRITING BOX AND COVER
Valeur estimée
$ 250 000 – 350 000
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE WRITING BOX AND COVER

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1620)

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 1/8 in. (30.9 cm.) wide; 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) deep





Provenance

Tournet, Paris, c. 1960.

Private collection of a famous French industrialist.

Marchant, London.
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