A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'peony' comestic box and cover, Southern Song / Yuan dynasty | 南宋 / 元 龍泉窰青釉貼牡丹紋小蓋盒

Hong Kong Private Collection, acquired in the 1990s.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1st-2nd June 2017, lot 408.

來源：

香港私人收藏，得於1990年代

香港蘇富比2017年6月1至2日，編號408

Chinese Ceramics Han to Song, Marchant, London, 2018, cat. no. 31.

展覽:

《中國陶瓷：由漢至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2018年，編號31

For similar boxes elegantly molded in relief with flowers, see one in the Guanfu Museum, Beijing, where it is decorated with a lotus flower, included in The Art of Chinese Box, Beijing, 2009, cat. no. 73; see another box, carved with a lotus spray, from the collection of Harry Oppenheim and included in R.L. Hobson and A.L. Hetherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter; from the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming, New York, 1923, fig. 2. See another related box in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, pl. 361.