A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'MONKEY AND DEER' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI PERIOD (1563-1619) The slightly raised center of the cover is decorated in dark underglaze blue with two deer standing below a peach tree in which a monkey is disturbing a wasp nest while the other stands below ready to catch it. The sides are decorated with four quatrefoil panels of birds perched on blossoming branches above a key-fret border repeated on the box above a frieze of six horses leaping between clouds above a band of wind-tossed waves and a narrow band of scroll encircling the foot ring. 8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam. Provenance Takayanagi Collection, Tokyo.
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'MONKEY AND DEER' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI PERIOD (1563-1619) The slightly raised center of the cover is decorated in dark underglaze blue with two deer standing below a peach tree in which a monkey is disturbing a wasp nest while the other stands below ready to catch it. The sides are decorated with four quatrefoil panels of birds perched on blossoming branches above a key-fret border repeated on the box above a frieze of six horses leaping between clouds above a band of wind-tossed waves and a narrow band of scroll encircling the foot ring. 8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam. Provenance Takayanagi Collection, Tokyo.
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