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Box with cover

Title

Box with cover

Year/Period

c. 13th century, Yuan dynasty

Region

Probably Dehua, Fujian province, China

Material

Porcelain

Technique

Moulded

Dimension

Object size: 11.5 x 5.0 cm

Accession No.

C-1572

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

This box is glazed with a bluish white, crackled glaze. The outer wall has a decoration of a band of classic scroll motifs in thread-relief. The cover has a moulded decoration of a Buddhist swastika motif in the centre within two concentric rings, encircled by classic scroll motifs. In India, Buddhist and Hindus traditionally used the swastika as a good luck symbol while in China and Japan it has been used to represent abundance, prosperity and long life.