WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

A similar box with a pierced, domed cover was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1857. A box of very similar decoration and size but in blue and white is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, p. 323, pl. 964.