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Blue-and-white covered box with landscape scene on lid

Kiln Unknown, Vietnam

Artwork Details

Blue-and-white covered box with landscape scene on lid
16th century
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
stoneware with blue underglaze painting
1 3/4 x 2 7/16 x 2 7/16 in. (4.45 x 6.19 x 6.19 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.22.1-2

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Description

Subject Matter:

A lakeside landscape scene in painted in blue cobalt pigments on the lid of this box.

Physical Description:

A stoneware ceramic box, with a rounded bowl and a nearly flat lid, decorated with a free-hand drawn landscape in underglaze cobalt blue on the lid, and then coated in a whitish glaze overall.

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