Lot 606. An inscribed Qingbai 'melon' box and cover, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 HKD  (1,800 - 2,400 EUR). Lot sold 18,750 HKD (2,193 EUR). Photo Sotheby's 2015. 

of compressed globular form resembling a melon with lobed sides and cover moulded with a stem, applied overall with a transparent glaze pooling to a light turquoise blue in the recesses, save for the raised interior rim and base left unglazed revealing a white body, the latter impressed with a four-character inscription, probably reading Zhan jia hezi ji ('made by the Zhan family box store') - 5 cm., 2 in.

Property from a private Japanese collection

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co., Ltd. Tokyo.

Sotheby's. Chinese Art. Hong Kong, 01 Jun 2015, 03:15 PM