Dimensions: 4-1/2" H x 12-1/8" L Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Wucai dragon porcelain 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 blue rings lines on the each rim. The exterior hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against wucai design, WuCai or five-color shades and tones, brightly painted around the exterior, between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgrafitto ground of uptala, depicted of snarling huge imperial five claws dragon careening through abundant flowers blooms, foliage in a vivid tones color dragon squama to chasing flaming pearl amidst flames and vapors. The colors are harmonious, balanced, elegant and exquisite, the composition is sophisticated, simply a feast for the eye. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within double rectangular borders, Made in The Years of Wanli Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.