FOURTEEN CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BOXES,Ming Dynasty. With bird and floral decoration - Largest: 3 1/2 in. diam. Estimate $400-600
PROVENANCE: Private collection of John Tabor, retired naval and Foreign Service officer; acquired in 1965
Four boxes in good condition; the others have small to minute chips around the rim of the cover and/or to the rim of box; one has a hairline, the smallest had a clean break on the cover and was glued; another the cover was not cut straight, it looks like a chip but in reality it is how the box was open