of circular form, brightly painted in vivid shades of cobalt blue, the stepped domed cover with a central medallion enclosing sixteen boys at play in a fenced garden, with a boy dressed as a dignitary seated on a chair at the centre leading other boys around to read, beside a boy flying a kite and another group of boys gathered around a table, in the foreground a boy holding a flag behind another boy wearing an official hat riding on a hobby horse, next to another group of boys at play with garden foliage, the sides of the cover and the box decorated with striding dragons in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', the rims encircled by the babao alternating with stylised lingzhi sprays, skirted around the foot with a band of foliate scrolls, the base with a six-character reign mark within a double circle

《Svenska hem i ord och bilder》，斯德哥爾摩，1936年

The box and cover is in very good condition with the exception of minute flakes along the rims and minor firing imperfections characteristic of the period.
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帶此類紋飾之瓷盒，見於世界各地博物館及私人珍藏，可舉清宮舊藏，現仍貯北京，圖見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．青花釉裏紅（中）》，上海，2000年，圖版181。德雷斯頓 Zwinger 收藏一件，載錄於《Porzellansammlung im Zwinger》，德勒斯登國家藝術收藏館，德雷斯頓，1982年，頁12。另一件現存牛津阿什莫林博物館，圖見 Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt，《Ming Porcelain》，倫敦，1978年，圖版212。紐約大都會藝術博物館亦藏一例，收錄於《東洋陶磁大觀》，東京，1982年，卷2，圖版93。再有一例，費城美術館藏，1949年展於其館《Ming Blue-and-White. An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty》，並刊載於館誌《Philadelphia Museum Bulletin》，卷XLIV，223期，1949年秋，圖版141。

拍賣會也曾拍出其它類例，如一器，先後入趙從衍、徐展堂及玫茵堂雅蓄，1987及1997年先後售於香港蘇富比及紐約佳士得，2011年4月7日再次售於香港蘇富比，編號67。紐約蘇富比曾售出另外兩件：第一件兩度售出，分別於1981年11月6日、編號270，及2009年3月17日，編號99；第二件，售於2007年3月20日，編號👍760。Hans Oström 舊藏一盒，也可資比對，1989年6月13日售於倫敦蘇富比，編號216。

知名瑞典收藏家 Emil Hultmark（1872-1943年），屬 Kina Klubben 中國學會之會員。斯德哥爾摩之 Kina ♑Klubben，享負盛名，創立於1920年代末，會員人數不多，但悉為中國瓷藏之佼佼者，當中包括瑞典國王古斯塔夫六世．阿道夫及卡爾肯普。