A CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER OCTAGONAL BOX AND COVER CHINA, MING DYNASTY, JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER INCISED AND GILT MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) The cover carved with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst clouds below a shou medallion in the center of two interlocking square panels enclosing various auspicious symbols, the sloping sides of the box and cover carved with panels of further five-clawed dragons, and the vertical sides with lingzhi scrolls, the gilt-highlighted reign mark incised in a line in the center of the black-lacquered base 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) wide Provenance Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, 1991. The Irving Collection, no. 3805.
A CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER OCTAGONAL BOX AND COVER CHINA, MING DYNASTY, JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER INCISED AND GILT MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) The cover carved with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst clouds below a shou medallion in the center of two interlocking square panels enclosing various auspicious symbols, the sloping sides of the box and cover carved with panels of further five-clawed dragons, and the vertical sides with lingzhi scrolls, the gilt-highlighted reign mark incised in a line in the center of the black-lacquered base 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) wide Provenance Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, 1991. The Irving Collection, no. 3805.
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