A GROUP OF WHITE-GLAZED BOXES AND COVERS 10TH CENTURY AND LATER

comprising: a pair of small circular boxes and covers; an apple-shaped box and cover; a pomegranate-shaped box and cover; and a square box and cover with canted corners and moulded to the top with a geometric palmette design

Bluett & Sons, London (square box, according to label).

Bluett & Sons, London (pair of boxes, according to label).

 

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy, London, 1935-6, cat. no. 942 (square box).

Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pls 373, 370, 371and 512.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures. A Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including the Carl Kempe Collection, Ulricehamn, 2002, pls 572 and 573 (pair of boxes).

left on catalogue image: In fair condition. The glaze is somewhat degraded especially on the box. Discolored kiln grit on the box. Chip to the cover rim approximately 1 cm. second from left on catalogue image: The box with a 1 cm chip on interior rim. Rim on the cover with some nibbles, the largest 3 mm. Craquelure on top of cover with three dots of kiln grit. third from left on catalogue image: In good overall condition, the surfaced suffused with craquelure. Minor kiln grit on interior rim and side of box. Negligible nibbles on cover rim. second from right on catalogue image: Glaze overall slightly degraded. Several chips to cover rim and approximately three chips to the tips of the finial. Small old chips to foot. right on catalogue image: Good condition overall with a shallow chip to one of the canted corners of the cover
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