A small wucai jar with cover Ming Dynasty, 16th / 17th Century

of miniature compressed ovoid form, the sides painted in green, red, black and yellow enamels and underglaze-blue with two dragons amid cloud scrolls each in pursuit of a flaming pearl, above four rocks jutting out of swelling waves at the base, and below a lotus scroll at the rim, the domed cover with a similar lotus scroll, surmounted by a red bead knop