1-234-808 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Covered box with brown-spotted relief flower, China, 10th century. A small round covered box. The cover has a six-petalled flower in relief highlighted in underglaze iron brown spots at the petal ends. The whole piece is glazed with a greenish clear crackled glaze leaving the base exposed. The inside of the cover is partially painted with white slip and glazed. The construction of the lower half of the box has a high lower lip and the base is without a foot and unglazed.