Dimensions: 6-3/8" H x 10-1/2" Dia. Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Red & blue dragon lidded round box. Potted in a slightly flattened round box, with rounded wide cavetto, correspondence dome lid, raised from rounded sides over a wide cavetto Inner flange circumscribed around the containers lip allows for a perfect fitment of the covering with gilt thick rings lines on the each rim. The exterior decorated with hand-painting in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against the blue and red fine color, depicted of snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves in a dark blue color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double fine blue rings, Made in The Years of Xuande Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.