Refined gathering II—selection of marchant and Japanese collection of ming porcelain

5373 | Wanli period,(1563-1623 AD) A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’BOX AND COVER

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’BOX AND COVER

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Size: D18.5cm

Signed and dated: Wanli period,(1563-1623 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 750,000


Wanli Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• An Important Japanese Collection

Finely painted in cobalt of intense purplish-blue tones,on the domed cover with an ascending and a descending dragon confronted on a‘flaming pearl’amidst flames and cloud-scrolls,the rounded sides of both box and cover with the Eight Buddhist Emblems intertwined on a curly lotus scroll,the rims with a narrow zig-zag band with trefoil scrolls.