Lot 39: A SMALL FAMILLE-ROSE CIRCULAR COVERED BOX AND LINER Iron-red wu zi deng ke (五子登科) mark to liner, first half 19th century

A SMALL FAMILLE-ROSE CIRCULAR COVERED BOX AND LINER

Iron-red
wu zi deng ke (五子登科) mark to liner, first half 19th century

Finely enameled with a phoenix in flight on a dense leafy scrolling ground of mallow or peony to the shallow domed cover and further flowers to the sides of the box, the plain liner of shallow-dish shape with a small hole at the center bordered by the four-character inscription.


1 5/8in (4.1cm) high; 3 3/4 in (9.5cm) diam

Generally, in excellent overall condition, save for a small chip/flake to the un-glazed underside of the liner rim (0.5cm) A few minor original firing glaze pulls but unobtrusive.

十九世紀前半期 粉彩鳳穿牡丹紋蓋盒



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今

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