Lot Essay
A box of identical design and similar size was sold in these Rooms, 16 January 1989, lot 347. Smaller boxes with comparable decoration but less pronounced height are published, one illustrated in Carved Lacquer in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1985, pl. 316; and another is illustrated by J. Watt and B. Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, no. 43.