Author: --

Size: L15.7cm

Signed and dated: Jiajing period，（1522-1570 AD）

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 1,150,000

Published
• R.L.Hobson，Rackham and King in Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections，1931，fig. 232
• E.E.Bluett in The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese Pottery and Porcelain，circa 1951，p.13，fig.15
• The London Borough of Croydon in The Riesco Collection of Chinese Ceramic Handlist，1987，p.11，no.100
Jiajing Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in the collection of W.J.Holt
• Sold at Sotheby’s London，15 May 1946，lot 300
• Sold by Sydney L. Moss，London，June 1946，for 65 pounds
• Formerly in the R.F.A Riesco Collection，no. 208a
• Bluett & Sons，London
• Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong，27 Nov 2013，lot 3119
• The S Marchant & Son，no.M3412

An imperial blue and white rectangular box and cover with canted comers，the top of the cover painted with a scene depicting a hermit accompanied by two young attendants gathering herbs underneath a pine tree partially shrouded by misty clouds，the slanted sides of the cover are decorated with four cartouches enclosing scrolling lingzhi or peaches on a ground of classic scrolls above a chevron band，the pattern repeated on the sides of the box