AN EXTREMELY RARE 'IMPERIAL-YELLOW DRAGON' POLYCHROME LACQUER BOX AND COVER WANLI MARK AND PERIOD, DATED TO THE YIWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1595 of rectangular form with rounded sides and cusped corners, deftly carved in varied levels of relief through the ochre-yellow lacquer to the green and red layers below, with two five-clawed dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' among clouds and above rocks battered by crested waves, all reserved on a ground of red floral diapers and green undulating waves, the sides with composite floral scrolls of peony, the box similarly decorated with floral cartouches recessed on a lotus scroll-ground above a border of key-fret around the foot, the interior and base lacquered red, incised partially erased reign mark in gilt, Japanese wood box (4) Length 12 1/2 in., 31.7 cm
AN EXTREMELY RARE 'IMPERIAL-YELLOW DRAGON' POLYCHROME LACQUER BOX AND COVER WANLI MARK AND PERIOD, DATED TO THE YIWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1595 of rectangular form with rounded sides and cusped corners, deftly carved in varied levels of relief through the ochre-yellow lacquer to the green and red layers below, with two five-clawed dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' among clouds and above rocks battered by crested waves, all reserved on a ground of red floral diapers and green undulating waves, the sides with composite floral scrolls of peony, the box similarly decorated with floral cartouches recessed on a lotus scroll-ground above a border of key-fret around the foot, the interior and base lacquered red, incised partially erased reign mark in gilt, Japanese wood box (4) Length 12 1/2 in., 31.7 cm
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