A cloisonné enamel 'floral' circular box and cover, Mark and period of Wanli

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the base with a six-character mark within a rectangle Diameter 8.1 cm, 3¼ in. This box belongs to a small and rare group of cloisonné pieces bearing prominent enamelled Wanli marks. A closely related box of Wanli mark and period was preserved in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in the Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 53; and another in the Clague Collection was included in the exhibition Chinese Cloisonné. The Clague Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1980, pl. 16. Compare also a box with a scrolling floral design, formerly in the collection of Sir Percival and Lady David, illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné, Zurich, 1989, pl. 112.

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