Set with six corners with hollow cylindrical columns. The sides of the base decorated in underglaze blue, gree, yellow and red enamels with figures in gardens with rocks, bamboo, lingzhi and leafs. The base with six character mark of Wanli within one rectangle. Length 15 cm.
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From a Swedish private collector with a great passion for Asian Works of Art. His collection is always transforming itself and has been added to for the last 50 years.
Compare similar, but complete box in the Edward T. Chow Collection. Sotheby, Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, part III, May 1981. Lot no 433.