AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The slightly domed cover is finely painted with iron-red, green and yellow enamels, highlighting the underglaze-blue design to depict a writhing dragon confronting a long-tailed phoenix between a 'flaming pearl' amidst a composite floral-scroll ground, all within a single line border, the vertical sides similarly designed with a dragon striding in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' behind a phoenix, the reign mark written on the recessed base, within a double-line frame and bordered by ruyi -heads 11 1/2 in. (29 cm.) diam.
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The slightly domed cover is finely painted with iron-red, green and yellow enamels, highlighting the underglaze-blue design to depict a writhing dragon confronting a long-tailed phoenix between a 'flaming pearl' amidst a composite floral-scroll ground, all within a single line border, the vertical sides similarly designed with a dragon striding in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' behind a phoenix, the reign mark written on the recessed base, within a double-line frame and bordered by ruyi -heads 11 1/2 in. (29 cm.) diam.
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