AN OVAL BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS SCROLL' BOX, LINER AND COVER Hongzhi The oval box with rounded sides rising from a short spreading foot, painted around the exterior with classic lotus scrolls beneath lappets at the shoulder, the countersunk liner with blossoming prunus reaching for the crescent moon, the slightly domed cover with short straight sides similarly painted with lotus scrolls. 20cm (7 7/8in) long. (3). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 明弘治 青花纏枝蓮紋蓋盒 Provenance: National Museum, Philippines (collector's notes) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, in 2001 (collector's notes) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society, The World in Blue and White: An Exhibition of Blue and White Ceramics dating between 1320 and 1820, from members of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 2003, p.24 cat.no.56-56a M.White, Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.4, n.p, 2023, p.65 (Published and Illustrated) 來源：菲律賓國家博物館（藏家筆記） 獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2001年（藏家筆記） 展覽著錄：東方陶瓷學會，《The World in Blue and White: An Exhibition of Blue and White Ceramics dating between 1320 and 1820, from members of the Oriental Ceramic Society》，倫敦，2003年，第24頁，圖錄編號56-56a M.White，《Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection》，第4冊，無出版地，2023年，第65頁（著錄） The present lot bears an unrecorded mark drilled beneath the liner, reminiscent of examples in collections such as the Ardebil Shrine, suggesting that it may once have been exported to the Middle East. Comparable blue and white boxes and covers, together with Hongzhi period wares of Middle Eastern-inspired forms, such as pen boxes, kendis, and ewers, were recovered from the Lena Shoal wreck, a Chinese junk of uncertain destination that sank off the Philippines around 1490. These discoveries offer a rare insight into the luxury goods traded through Chinese maritime routes in the late fifteenth century. See a similar oval box with liner and cover, decorated with lotus, Hongzhi, illustrated in Sunken Treasure: Fifteenth Century Chinese Ceramics from the Lena Cargo, London, 2000, p.33, no.3 See a similar blue and white oblong box and cover, Hongzhi, which was sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2013, lot 1458. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing