A set of five Chinese red lacquer boxes and covers, the central rectangular box carved with a ribbon-tied emblem of ruyi and flowers surrounded by stylised bats and swastikas on a dense cell-pattern ground within a key-pattern border, the sides with cell-pattern, the four L-shaped smaller boxes similarly decorated with Buddhist emblems (chips) -- 4¾in.wide max, Qianlong.

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A set of five Chinese red lacquer boxes and covers, the central rectangular box carved with a ribbon-tied emblem of ruyi and flowers surrounded by stylised bats and swastikas on a dense cell-pattern ground within a key-pattern border, the sides with cell-pattern, the four L-shaped smaller boxes similarly decorated with Buddhist emblems (chips) -- 4¾in.wide max, Qianlong.
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