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A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 1
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A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 4
A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 5
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A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 7
A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 8
A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 9
A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 10
A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover Song Dynasty image 11
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Lot 98

A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover
Song Dynasty

15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$1,800 - US$2,500

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A rare molded Qingbai octofoil cosmetic box and cover

Song Dynasty
Of lightly lobed circular shape, the cover molded with a dense design of slender scrolling chrysanthemum sprays and stems within an octofoil-lobed medallion that mirrors the vertical molded sides of the cover, the rim unglazed, the box similarly lobed, the flat base with areas of uneven glaze, the interior with three cup-shaped containers divided by a leafy lotus stems spreading out from a central seed pod.
5 1/2in (14cm) diameter

Footnotes

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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