A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR BOXES AND COVERS, each domed cover painted in strong tones with a foliate cartouche containing a dragon and a phoenix in mutual pursuit around a flaming pearl amidst clouds, reserved on a diaper ground, surrounded by pine, bamboo, lingzhi and prunus, the box similarly decorated with key-pattern borders, Wanli six-character marks, 19th Century

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR BOXES AND COVERS, each domed cover painted in strong tones with a foliate cartouche containing a dragon and a phoenix in mutual pursuit around a flaming pearl amidst clouds, reserved on a diaper ground, surrounded by pine, bamboo, lingzhi and prunus, the box similarly decorated with key-pattern borders, Wanli six-character marks, 19th Century
25.7cm. diam. (2)

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