An Indian pierced ivory rectangular box and hinged cover on four elephant feet carved to the top with a central shaped cartouche with a flowerhead flanked by two butterflies and two further cartouches in the form of flowerheads on a ground of interlacing flowers and foliage and a border of confronting birds and roundels, the sides similarly carved with flowerheads on a foliate ground between two pierced galleries -- 11½.in.wide.