The small Qingbai box of compressed circular drum shape. The cover and the bottom with multi-lobed sides in the shape of chrysanthemum petals, both with a raised band around the rim.
A Qingbai lobed ‘chrysanthemum’ box and cover – with a workshop mark reading ‘Li Jia He Zi’ (Song dynasty, 960-1279)
Description
Dimensions: 6.9 cm diameter
Provenance:
A private English collection, acquired in Indonesia in the 1970s
The small Qingbai box of compressed circular drum shape. The cover and the bottom with multi-lobed sides in the shape of chrysanthemum petals, both with a raised band around the rim. The top of the cover left undecorated. The base with an incised workshop mark. The box is covered in a pale, translucent blueish-white glaze.
Compare a nearly identical, slightly lower Qingbai porcelain box of the same shape and diameter, excavated from the Hutian kiln in Jingdezhen between 1988 and 1999, now in the collection of the Jingdezhen Museum of Civilian Kiln. Another larger, but in terms of design closely comparable, Qingbai box is in the Yuegutang collection in Berlin, illustrated in ‘Yuegutang – A Collection of Chinese Ceramics in Berlin’, Krahl, R., Berlin, 2000, no. 205, p. 251.
