Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 06 Nov 2019
4 novembre 2019
A wucai 'dragon and phoenix' sweetmeat box, Wanli mark and period (1573-1620)
Lot 145. A wucai 'dragon and phoenix' sweetmeat box, Wanli mark and period (1573-1620). Diameter 24 cm, 9½ in.. Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP. Lot sold 6,875 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.
the interior modelled with a central floral-shaped compartment with six radiating sections, painted with dragons and phoenix in flight amidst blossoms on leafy sprigs, the exterior similarly decorated, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle in underglaze blue.
Provenance: Collection of Sigisbert Chretien Bosch Reitz (1860-1938), curator of the Asian Art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1914-1926).
Bequeathed to his godson Jonkheer G.C. Six van Wimmenum (1892-1975).
Thence by family descent.
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