A wucai ingot-shaped 'dragon' box and cover


Wanli six-character mark The steeply curved sides rising from a short foot, decorated around the exterior with striding five-clawed dragons amidst wispy clouds, all beneath a diaper-pattern band, the cover similarly decorated with further dragons, two wood stands. 24.9cm (9 3/4in) long. (4).
|The Property of a Gentleman Provenance: a European private collectionPublished and illustrated: Otto Edward Bertram, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain found in Indonesia, Jakarta, 1961.