Early 20th Century Small Chinese Famille Verte Hexagonal Porcelain Hand Painted Boxes With Lids - Set of 3

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Early 20th Century Small Chinese Famille Verte Hexagonal Porcelain Hand Painted Boxes With Lids - Set of 3.

Beautiful set … more Early 20th Century Small Chinese Famille Verte Hexagonal Porcelain Hand Painted Boxes With Lids - Set of 3.

Beautiful set of six-sided trinket boxes from China. Made in the period from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, during the late great Qing Dynasty. The bright white porcelain lids and boxes are hand-painted in slightly dimensional glazes - the beautifully decorated lids show traditional river and bridge landscapes.

Each box is in excellent condition with no significant imperfections including chips, cracks or repairs.

Each Hexagonal box with lid measures 3 1/2” wide at each of the six corners x 3” tall at each of the three angled feet x 1 1/4”Thick. Each box weighs 6.53 ounces or 185 grams.

Notes on the Great Qing, adapted from Wikipedia - The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636, and ruled from 1644 to 1911. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted for almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for modern China. It was the fifth largest empire in world history; the dynasty was founded by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming Jianzhou Guard vassal, began organizing "Banners", military-social units that included Manchu, Han, and Mongol elements. 
Nurhaci formed the Manchu clans into a unified entity and officially proclaimed the Later Jin, in 1616. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of the Liaodong Peninsula and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. less