A FINE IRON-RED CORAL GROUND FLORAL CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG the slightly domed cover with a flat top delicately painted in the reserve on the white body with a mallow floret in the center radiating eight trefoils towards four butterflies with outstretched wings, each confronting a smaller butterfly, bordered around the sides with lotus flowers and buds on a detached acanthus leaf scroll, the sides of the box similarly decorated with butterflies and lotus echoing the design on the cover, all reservered against a bright iron-red coral ground, the interior glazed white, the base of the box marked with a six character underglaze-blue reign mark within double circles 15.1 CM., 6 IN.
A FINE IRON-RED CORAL GROUND FLORAL CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG the slightly domed cover with a flat top delicately painted in the reserve on the white body with a mallow floret in the center radiating eight trefoils towards four butterflies with outstretched wings, each confronting a smaller butterfly, bordered around the sides with lotus flowers and buds on a detached acanthus leaf scroll, the sides of the box similarly decorated with butterflies and lotus echoing the design on the cover, all reservered against a bright iron-red coral ground, the interior glazed white, the base of the box marked with a six character underglaze-blue reign mark within double circles 15.1 CM., 6 IN.
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