29.5 cm. （115/8 in.） wide

Provenance：
A Japanese Private Collection
Christie’s New York， 22nd March 2007， lot 309

A number of similar octagonal Jiajing-marked blue and white boxes are found in important museum collections. An octagonal box in the Tokyo National Museum is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum， Chinese Ceramics II， Tokyo， 1990， cat.no. 98. An octagonal box from the Eumorfopoulos Collection， now in the Victoria and Albert Museum， London， is illustrated by R.L. Hobson， Catalogue of the Chinese， Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain， London， 1927， pl. III， D26. A third box and cover in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein， A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics， New York， 1989， pl. 167： another is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu， Ceramic Art of the World 14： Ming Dynasty， Shogakukan， p. 68 & 69， no. 70 &71.

Price estimate:
HKD： 700,000-1,000,000
USD： 90,300-129,000

Auction Result:
HKD: --