WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A LATE MING WUCAI RECTANGULAR BOX AND PIERCED COVER
wanli six-character mark and of the period
Resting on four low feet and flaring to the wider stepped rim, the slightly domed cover similarly shaped and asymmetrically pierced, all painted and enamelled with lotus scrolls at the sides, the cover with a large central medallion enclosing floral sprays among densely scrolling leaves, the base unglazed except for the rectangular mark in underglaze blue
8¼in. (21cm.) wide

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Compare the very similar box and pierced cover illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, p.311, fig.927; and another in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, formerly in the Holger Lauritzen Collection, and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections vol. 8, fig.249

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