Cross-Currents in America: The Wolf Family Collection
Cross-Currents in America: The Wolf Family Collection
A Large Chinese Famille-Verte 'Dragon' Circular Box and Cover, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
清康熙 五彩雲龍戲珠紋蓋盒
Auction Closed
April 21, 06:04 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Large Chinese Famille-Verte 'Dragon' Circular Box and Cover
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
清康熙 五彩雲龍戲珠紋蓋盒
the base with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle (2)
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) diameter
Hartman Rare Art, Inc., New York
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 1198 (acquired from the above on May 21, 2003)
Porcelain boxes served a variety of functions, from holding food to cosmetics, ink, and seal paste. The present box is rare for its large size and design. Only one other box of this type, possibly its counterpart, appears to be recorded, from the collection of Avery Brundage and now in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (accession no. B60P253.a-b). An underglaze-blue and copper-red box and cover of similar proportions with an apocryphal Xuande mark, decorated with dragons in profile within line borders, was sold at Christie's New York, September 21, 2004, lot 260.
For related large Kangxi period boxes, compare a mark and period wucai 'dragon' three-tiered example from the Yidetang Collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, May 28, 2001, lot 2939, and a blue and white 'Hundred Boys' domed box sold in our London rooms, November 7, 2012, lot 41.