Qingbai Circular Box with Pedestal Foot and Fitted Interior
Song Dynasty 960-1279 AD, China
Diameter: 13.2 cm
A round box of compressed form on high tapering foot with an incised design of babies amongst foliage contained by a band of overlapping petals on the beveled edge of its slightly domed lid. The interior is fitted with three foliate- form cups and stems with floral medallions in relief. The entire piece, with the exception of the lid interior and sections of the foot-well interior, is covered in a pale blue Qingbai glaze with craquelure on the lid. There is a brown ring on bottom of the inner foot-well where the piece was fired on a cylindrical kiln support.
A similar example published in “Voids in Clay” by Rose Kerr, 3Mer Books 2021. Pl. 35. Two others can be seen in “Qingbai Jingpin Jianshang” JXfinearts 2012. pgs. 112-113.
Provenance:
Ancient Chinese Antiques, Hong Kong, 1996.
Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Seattle
Private Collection, New York
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