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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 º in. (13.5 cm.) square, lacquer cover, Japanese wood box
HK$900,000-1,200,000 US$120,000-150,000
PROVENANCE
Manno Art Museum, no. 451
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 553
EXHIBITED
Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Gen Min Meihinten, 24 April - 6
May 1956, Catalogue no. 169

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