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100 Selected Chinese and Korean Ceramics from the
Toguri Collection
SALE L04212 LOT 20
SESSION 1 | 09 Jun 04 12:00 AM.
London, New Bond Street
f - A BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE LOZENGE-SHAPED 'DRAGON' BOX AND COVER
MARK AND PERIOD OF LONGQING
30,000—40,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 54,000 GBP MEASUREMENTS
measurements note
length 19cm., 7 1/2 in., height 7.5cm., 3in.
DESCRIPTION
painted in underglaze-blue with two five-clawed dragons opposing a
flaming pearl amongst cloud scrolls, within a slightly raised double
blue line band, below a broad band of insects amongst flowers and
foliage and narrow raised border of scrollwork to the rim, the base
similarly decorated
Quantity: 2
EXHIBITED
Chinese Arts of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods, Tokyo National Museum,
Tokyo, 1963, cat.no.307.
Chûgoku bijutsu ten, series 5: Min Shin no bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Art
Museum, Osaka, 1980, cat.no. 1-89.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
Tôji taikei, vol. 42, Tokyo, 1975, pl. 84.
Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol.1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 878.
Satô Masahiko, Chûgoku tôji shi, Tokyo, 1978, pl.245.
Min Shin no bijutsu. Osaka, 1980, pl. 110.
Satô Masahiko, Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 260.
CATALOGUE NOTE
A very similar Longqing box, included in the exhibition Yuan and Ming
Ceramics, Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1956, cat.no. 159, and illustrated in
Sekai tôji zenshû, vol.14, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 218, was sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 241. Compare also a box of this shape
and design included in the exhibition Chin |
