Chinese transitional blue-and-white porcelain pill box salvaged from a shipwreck in the South China Sea, late Ming-early Qing dynasty, ca. 1643. Decorated with…

Chinese transitional blue-and-white porcelain pill box salvaged from a shipwreck in the South China Sea, late Ming-early Qing dynasty, ca. 1643. Decorated with intricate foliate motifs executed in blue underglaze. With a four-character mark in blue underglaze along the underside. Illustrated in Howard, "Choice of the Private Trader," pg. 220, no. 257. Provenance: Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp, Belgium; Heirloom & Howard Ltd., 30 September 1985; The Distinguished Collection of Leo & Doris Hodroff. He

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Asian art

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St. Paul