A WELL-PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER WITH CHILDREN AT PLAY MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI with low rounded sides, the cover painted in an intense cobalt blue with a scene of sixteen boys engaged in various games, one impersonating an official in a long gown and tall hat seated on a chair with a book, accompanied by 'attendants' also holding books, another with an official's cap riding a hobby horse followed by an attendant with a standard, other boys playing the finger guessing game, flying a kite, swirling a clapper-drum, occupied with other items or simply watching, the sides of both box and cover with five-clawed dragons chasing 'flaming pearls', the raised bands around the rim with lingzhi and emblems and the straight foot with a foliate scroll, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in a double ring 22.6 cm., 9 in.
A WELL-PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE BOX AND COVER WITH CHILDREN AT PLAY MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI with low rounded sides, the cover painted in an intense cobalt blue with a scene of sixteen boys engaged in various games, one impersonating an official in a long gown and tall hat seated on a chair with a book, accompanied by 'attendants' also holding books, another with an official's cap riding a hobby horse followed by an attendant with a standard, other boys playing the finger guessing game, flying a kite, swirling a clapper-drum, occupied with other items or simply watching, the sides of both box and cover with five-clawed dragons chasing 'flaming pearls', the raised bands around the rim with lingzhi and emblems and the straight foot with a foliate scroll, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in a double ring 22.6 cm., 9 in.
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