Box with dragons and pierced cover, anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1699

Identification

Title(s)

Box with dragons and pierced cover

Object type

box

Object number

AK-MAK-644-1

Inscriptions / marks

mark: ‘大明成化年製’

Description

Grote doos van dik porselein, met een ondiep lichaam op voetring, beschilderd in onderglazuur bleu poudré (poederblauw) en rood. Op het lichaam van de doos vier uitgespaarde kostbare objecten in onderglazuur rood. De binnenzijde is verdeeld in zes compartimenten rondom een cirkelvormig centrum. Tweemaal koperen beslag op cirkelvormig centrum. Op de onderzijde het zes-karaktermerk van keizer Chenghua in een dubbele cirkel. Onderglazuur blauw met koperrood.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. 1675 - c. 1699

School / style

Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Kangxi-period (1662-1722)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

turning / fired / drawn thread work / paint / vitrification

Measurements

height 5.8 cm
diameter 23 cm
diameter 14.8 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Is part of

Box with dragons and pierced cover (AK-MAK-644)

Documentation

Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : the Ming and Qing dynasties, p. 126, cat.nr. 129

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.632843

Questions?

Do you have a remark or extra information on this object? Please let us know!