AN EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI SECTIONED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI MARK AND PERIOD the domed cover painted to the top with a circular panel enclosing a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond flourishing with lotus, reed and other aquatic plants, with an egret and magpie perched on the nearby banks, and a pair of magpies in flight above, encircled by a border of scrolling lotus, with each of the principal flowers supporting a Daoist emblem, the box similarly decorated, with the interior divided into a central circular compartment within four radiating sections, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, three Japanese boxes (8) Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Hirano Koto-ken, Tokyo, 1988. Exhibited Chūgoku no Kotōuji [Classical Chinese Ceramics], Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, 1988, cat. no. 2.
AN EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI SECTIONED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI MARK AND PERIOD the domed cover painted to the top with a circular panel enclosing a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond flourishing with lotus, reed and other aquatic plants, with an egret and magpie perched on the nearby banks, and a pair of magpies in flight above, encircled by a border of scrolling lotus, with each of the principal flowers supporting a Daoist emblem, the box similarly decorated, with the interior divided into a central circular compartment within four radiating sections, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, three Japanese boxes (8) Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Hirano Koto-ken, Tokyo, 1988. Exhibited Chūgoku no Kotōuji [Classical Chinese Ceramics], Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, 1988, cat. no. 2.
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