AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER, 14th/15TH CENTURY
AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER, 14th/15TH CENTURYEstimate $500 – $700
- Lot Sold $400 (Hammer Price)
- $480 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
delicately painted on the flat top with a central peony spray encircled with foliate scrolls, the petal-moulded sides with panels of floral sprigs, fitted box; together with two jarlets of compressed globular form, each painted with a linear floral scroll below a band of foliate sprigs around the narrow mouth
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7.5CM, 11CM, 10CM
PROVENANCE
Box and Cover Victor Shaw Ltd, Hong Kong 1976
Private collection, Melbourne
Compare with a larger box and cover illustrated by John Guy Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 1980, Cat. No. 96
A similar jarlet is illustrated in Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Vietnamese Ceramics, 1982 Cat. No. 85. Compare with a jarlet from the Piccus Collection sold at Christie's New York, 7 December 1984, lot 63