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Source Description
This rounded top and base of this box are covered in a peach bloom glaze of mottled red and pink. Clouds if gray-green speckled with apple green rest on the edges of the curved lid and upper lip of the bottom. The inside is covered in white glaze. Boxes of this type (in Chinese "yinse he") would contain vermillion seal paste and were an essential part of a scholar's writing desk. During the latter half of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), sets of petite porcelains covered in peach bloom glaze were produced at the Jingdezhen Imperial kilns. These sets, meant for the writing table, included small flower vases, brush washers, and boxes for seal paste.
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Document identity
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14543
label
Box for Seal Paste
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object
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Source metadata
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14543
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object
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normalized
title
Box for Seal Paste
description
This rounded top and base of this box are covered in a peach bloom glaze of mottled red and pink. Clouds if gray-green speckled with apple green rest on the edges of the curved lid and upper lip of the bottom. The inside is covered in white glaze. Boxes of this type (in Chinese "yinse he") would contain vermillion seal paste and were an essential part of a scholar's writing desk. During the latter half of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), sets of petite porcelains covered in peach bloom glaze were produced at the Jingdezhen Imperial kilns. These sets, meant for the writing table, included small flower vases, brush washers, and boxes for seal paste.
provenance
William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1710-1722
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
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boxes (containers)
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2
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2
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
Source extras
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Chinese
inscriptions
[Reign Mark] In blue underglaze: da qing kang xi nian zhi
dynasty
Qing Dynasty
reign
Kangxi (1662-1722)
med
porcelain with peach bloom glaze
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6238
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CHN
exhibition_ids
2514
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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2
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photo
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3a14ecae6db4e8e0
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