Description
A rare Chinese cloisonné ink stone box and cover 17th century, decorated with lappets containing the eight Buddhist emblems, the sides with bands of flowers and foliage, all on a turquoise ground, the rims and borders gilded, 11.3cm. (2)
Provenance: formerly in the Reid collection.
Illustrated: Till and Swart, Antique Chinese Cloisonné, no. 19.
For similar examples, see Brinker and Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné; The Pierre Uldry Collection, no. 79; and Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji: Zhongguo Jinyin Boli Falangqi Quanji, Vol. 5, no. 107, p. 93, in the collection of the Palace Museum.
