A Wucai sectioned Box and Cover mark and period of Wanli

finely potted of broad circular form with gently rounded sides rising from a short tapered footring, the interior of the box divided into a central circular compartment within four radiating sections, the exterior painted in characteristic palette, the domed cover with the bajixiang supported by lotus leaves on a meandering leafy stem, the box similarly decorated, the countersunk base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double circle

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23rd May 1978, lot 68.
Sotheby's Los Angeles, 5th June 1980, lot 1368.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 147.