Lot 151. A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'peony' comestic box and cover, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty (1127-1368). Diameter 7 cm. Lot Sold 20,320 USD (Estimate 15,000 - 20,000 USD). © Sotheby's

Provenance: Hong Kong Private Collection, acquired in the 1990s.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1st-2nd June 2017, lot 408.

Exhibited: Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2018, cat. no. 31.

Note: 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.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art, New York, 20 March 2024