A blue and white rectangular 'dragon' box and cover mark and period of Wanli

the top of the cover with a rectangular panel containing a quatrelobed cartouche of two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl against a coin-diaper ground, above panels of fruiting peach trees on the rounded sides and raised panels of lingzhi bearing babao at the indented corners, the box painted with panels of birds perched in blossoming and fruiting branches on the sides and with sprigs of flowers at the corners below a leafy scroll at the rim

Previously from the Falk Collection, Christie's New York, 20th September 2001, Lot 144.