A SUPERB AND VERY RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOX AND COVER MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING of square quatrelobed form, the box potted with bombé sides resting on a short foot, the exterior decorated with four yellow-enamelled dragons soaring sinuously amidst sprays of lingzhi fungus, a key-fret band painted bordering the straight rim and repeated at the rim of the well-fitted cover, the cover with a rounded border similarly decorated with four writhing dragons, surrounding a raised quatrelobed panel enclosing a coiling dragon wreathed by lingzhi fungus, the designs all defined and accentuated with iron-red lines and reserved against an underglaze-blue ground, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark 16 cm, 6 1/4 in.
A SUPERB AND VERY RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOX AND COVER MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING of square quatrelobed form, the box potted with bombé sides resting on a short foot, the exterior decorated with four yellow-enamelled dragons soaring sinuously amidst sprays of lingzhi fungus, a key-fret band painted bordering the straight rim and repeated at the rim of the well-fitted cover, the cover with a rounded border similarly decorated with four writhing dragons, surrounding a raised quatrelobed panel enclosing a coiling dragon wreathed by lingzhi fungus, the designs all defined and accentuated with iron-red lines and reserved against an underglaze-blue ground, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark 16 cm, 6 1/4 in.
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