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Covered Foliate-Form Box Decorated with Figural Scene - Image 1
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Jingdezhen kilns

Covered Foliate-Form Box Decorated with Figural Scene

Early 17th century

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Covered Foliate-Form Box Decorated with Figural Scene

Jingdezhen kilns

Covered Foliate-Form Box Decorated with Figural Scene

Jingdezhen kilns

Covered Foliate-Form Box Decorated with Figural Scene

Early 17th century

Physical Qualities Porcelain with underglaze cobalt and overglaze red, green, and yellow enamel decoration, 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (14 × 14 cm.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 1939.253
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Whitridge Collection sale; William H. Whitridge, Baltimore
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, 6/1-10/15/1930.
Collection installation, "Asia.Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2024-
'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art,1930, no. 144, ill.
Whitridge Collection, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1939, no. 567, ill.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore: BMA, 1992, no. 34, p. 46, ill.

Markings: On bottom: 6-character reign mark, in underglaze blue, within a double circle, "Da Ming Wan Li nian zhi"

On View: Levy Gallery 1, Case 01/B

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