A RARE WUCAI SQUARE BOX AND COVER

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A RARE WUCAI SQUARE BOX AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The cover decorated with a pair of five-clawed dragons flanking a 'flaming pearl', amid flames and ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls, the sides of the box and the cover each with a rectangular panel containing a further two dragons within a similar ground framed within an iron-red and green enamelled diaper border (glaze chips to corners, hairline to side of box)
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) square, box

Lot Essay

Boxes of this pattern and shape are extremely rare.

Compare to a square box decorated with boys at play from the Manno Art Museum, sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 553. Another square box depicting a scholar and young attendants in the Tokyo National Museum, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, 1982, vol. 1, no. 126.

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