
Michael Hughes
Vice President and Head of Department
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Vice President and Head of Department
宋 影青刻花粉盒
A Qingbai cosmetic box of similar form was excavated in 1994 at Tiling village, Yuexi county, Anqing city, Anhui provence and is illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (8) Anhui (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Vol. 8, Anhui), Beijing, 2008, p. 107, no. 107. For another example of this unusual type in the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska see the website, www.joslyn.org, inv. 2004.4a-b, dated to the early fourteenth century, where it is noted that women of status used such cosmetic boxes with lotus flower interiors (a Buddhist symbol of purity) and that the containers within held face powders made of rice flour and calcium.
Other examples are illustrated in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1969-70/1970-71, London, 1972, in an edition for the exhibition 'The Ceramic Art of China', organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 9th June-25th July, 1971, no. 124, pl. 85; and J.J. Lally, Oriental Art, Song Dynasty Ceramics, The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, New York, March-April, 2013, no. 20.
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