A FINE LARGE FIVE-COLOURED LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER carved around the lower section with cranes in flight amongst cloud-scrolls and flowering branches, and recumbent deer amongst rocks and pine, all above a band of interlocking key-pattern at the short foot, the domed cover carved with Daoist Immortals examining a scroll in a pavilion interior, with further Immortals variously on a terrace, on clouds and approaching the pavilion, all with their respective attributes, the box fitted with a carved cinnabar tray with a central shou roundel surrounded by five bats (minor damage), 18th Century

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A FINE LARGE FIVE-COLOURED LACQUER PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER carved around the lower section with cranes in flight amongst cloud-scrolls and flowering branches, and recumbent deer amongst rocks and pine, all above a band of interlocking key-pattern at the short foot, the domed cover carved with Daoist Immortals examining a scroll in a pavilion interior, with further Immortals variously on a terrace, on clouds and approaching the pavilion, all with their respective attributes, the box fitted with a carved cinnabar tray with a central shou roundel surrounded by five bats (minor damage), 18th Century
54.5cm. wide

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