Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, wucai, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres Length: 30 centimetres Width: 21 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain box and cover with underglaze blue and ‘wucai’-style polychrome enamels. The cover of this rectangular box fits over the sides of its tray and rests on the top of the larger rectangular base. It is painted in underglaze blue and polychrome red, yellow, green and black overglaze enamels. The top of the cover is decorated with a composite flower scroll within a bracket-lobed cartouche and with peach branches each bearing three fruits in the corners. Along the sides, cartouches framing flowers are set against a diaper ground. Inside the cover, the colours are less faded and in the centre is a stylized rock with a giant tree peony and peach tree. The tree is unusual, as many fruits are shown half-eaten to reveal the yellow stones within the red flesh. Along the inner walls are trees with alternating yellow and red flowers. Within a broad outer foot ring, the base carries a six-character underglaze blue Wanli reign mark within a double rectangle and ‘ruyi’-head border.
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![图片[1]-box BM-1936-1012.242.a-b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00268934_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-box BM-1936-1012.242.a-b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00352246_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another box of this type, but with different decoration, is in the Tokyo National Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, wucai, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Height: 11.50 centimetres Length: 30 centimetres Width: 21 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain box and cover with underglaze blue and ‘wucai’-style polychrome enamels. The cover of this rectangular box fits over the sides of its tray and rests on the top of the larger rectangular base. It is painted in underglaze blue and polychrome red, yellow, green and black overglaze enamels. The top of the cover is decorated with a composite flower scroll within a bracket-lobed cartouche and with peach branches each bearing three fruits in the corners. Along the sides, cartouches framing flowers are set against a diaper ground. Inside the cover, the colours are less faded and in the centre is a stylized rock with a giant tree peony and peach tree. The tree is unusual, as many fruits are shown half-eaten to reveal the yellow stones within the red flesh. Along the inner walls are trees with alternating yellow and red flowers. Within a broad outer foot ring, the base carries a six-character underglaze blue Wanli reign mark within a double rectangle and ‘ruyi’-head border.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another box of this type, but with different decoration, is in the Tokyo National Museum.
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