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Box with Figures in Landscape

Period:
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Wanli mark and period (1573–1619)
Date:
late 16th–early 17th century
Culture:
China
Medium:
Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
Dimensions:
W. 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Classification:
Ceramics
Credit Line:
Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991
Accession Number:
1991.253.56

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 204

  • Description

    The four characters on the cover read tianxi taiping, or “all is well under heaven,” a common wish often written on porcelains in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

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