A VERY RARE MING WUCAI 'BOYS' SQUARE BOX AND COVER WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The box is decorated on each side with children at play in a garden landscape within a double-outlined frame, under a key-fret band surrounding the exterior of the mouth rim. The flat square lid is similarly decorated, surmounted by a finial modelled as a small dog, and fitting neatly onto the recessed rim of the box, all raised on a short foot ring, the base bearing the reign mark in underglaze-blue. 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) square, lacquer cover, Japanese wood box Provenance Manno Art Museum, no. 451 Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 553
A VERY RARE MING WUCAI 'BOYS' SQUARE BOX AND COVER WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The box is decorated on each side with children at play in a garden landscape within a double-outlined frame, under a key-fret band surrounding the exterior of the mouth rim. The flat square lid is similarly decorated, surmounted by a finial modelled as a small dog, and fitting neatly onto the recessed rim of the box, all raised on a short foot ring, the base bearing the reign mark in underglaze-blue. 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm.) square, lacquer cover, Japanese wood box Provenance Manno Art Museum, no. 451 Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 553
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