A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SEAL PASTE BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

of circular outline, finely painted in 'Master of the Rocks' style of bold layering and faint 'blobby dots' for depth and perspective, the domed cover with a scene of five scholar-officials offering tribute to a dignitary standing beneath a canopy held by an attendant with a stately sedan in the foreground, the conforming box with a continuous landscape, the interior of the cover decorated with a seated scholar practicing calligraphy, the lower section with an auspicious scene of the immortal Li Tiegui pouring magical elixir from a double gourd, the base with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mark (2), coll. no. 1482

Sotheby's New York, 19th September 2002, lot 123.

Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed, Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, cat. no. 35.

The surface with expected overall wear, minor potting and glaze flaws consistent with age and type. The cover with a shallow chip to the inside rim and another restored flake chip to the exterior rim. The lower section with a small firing tear and tiny nicks to the foot rim.
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