with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the exterior painted with two phoenix soaring amidst lotus scrolls, the interior encircled around the inner rim with a band of overlapping petal motifs, encircling a central cloud motif incised in the centre, the base with an ✅inscription dating to the first year of the Longqing period (corresponding with 1567), Japanese wood box

21.7 cm