A RARE WUCAI BOX AND COVER

Lot 897
23.03.2023 08:30UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 905545
Lot 897 | A RARE WUCAI BOX AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
A RARE WUCAI BOX AND COVER

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The square box is decorated on each side with a five-clawed dragon writhing amidst clouds above crashing waves, the body of each dragon coiled around a ‘flaming pearl’. The flat cover is similarly decorated with a single dragon coiled around the Buddhist lion-form finial.

5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high, cloth box





Provenance

French private collection.

Christie's Paris, 10 June 2009, lot 125.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4538.
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