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明萬曆 青花雙龍戲珠長方蓋盒
青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款
Provenance: an Asian private collection
Published and Illustrated: T.Koopman, Heavenly Boxes: The Edrina Collection of Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing Boxes, Hong Kong, pp.94-95.
來源:亞洲私人收藏
著錄:馮英柱,《天作之盒:昇雯閣藏唐宋元明清珍寶盒》,香港,第94-95頁
One assertion about the function of boxes as the present lot is that they were made as containers for gifts of sweetmeats; see J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.324. Compare with a related blue and white rectangular box decorated with two dragons and peach trees, Wanli mark and period, in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and-white Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol.VI, Hong Kong, 1963, p.42.
Compare with a similar blue and white rectangular dragon covered box, Wanli mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3115.