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Lot Essay
Compare the white porcelain circular box and cover dated Tang to Five Dynasties, 10th century, of similar shape with an extended inner rim in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Dingzhou huaci: yuancang Dingyao xi baici tezhan (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2013, p. 41, no. I-22, where the author notes Changsha circular covered boxes with the same distinctive wide rounded inner rim have been found bearing the inscription, you he (oil box), indicating this type of box may have been used as a cosmetic container.
A white porcelain circular covered box with extended inner rim unearthed from the crypt of pagoda no. 2 of the Fawangsi temple at Dengfeng city, Henan province was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum and illustrated in the catalogue Kentōshi to Tō no bijutsi (Cultural Crossings: Tang Art and the Japanese Envoys), Tokyo, 2005, p. 79, no. 44. Another white porcelain circular box and cover of this type is illustrated by R. Mowry, Peace and Quietude—Song Ceramics from the Qingjingtang Collection, Lisbon, 2014, pp. 168-169, no. 44, where it is described as Xing ware following a silver shape and dated Tang to Five Dynasties. A further comparable circular box with similarly notched cover, inscribed on the base Yuanyou si nian (Yuanyou fourth year), corresponding to 1089, is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 129, no. 403, where it is identified as Ding ware.
A white porcelain circular covered box with extended inner rim unearthed from the crypt of pagoda no. 2 of the Fawangsi temple at Dengfeng city, Henan province was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum and illustrated in the catalogue Kentōshi to Tō no bijutsi (Cultural Crossings: Tang Art and the Japanese Envoys), Tokyo, 2005, p. 79, no. 44. Another white porcelain circular box and cover of this type is illustrated by R. Mowry, Peace and Quietude—Song Ceramics from the Qingjingtang Collection, Lisbon, 2014, pp. 168-169, no. 44, where it is described as Xing ware following a silver shape and dated Tang to Five Dynasties. A further comparable circular box with similarly notched cover, inscribed on the base Yuanyou si nian (Yuanyou fourth year), corresponding to 1089, is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 129, no. 403, where it is identified as Ding ware.