Lot Essay
Compare the gilt decoration with a quatrefoil box and cover decorated with sprigs of fruit and lingzhi, with cranes to the sides illustrated in Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1995, no. 105; and to a lacquer box containing stacked trays, visible through the circular aperture at the sides, decorated with fruiting fines and elaborate lotus blooms, illustrated in Zhong Guo Qi Qi Jing Hua, The Finest Chinese Lacquers, no. 260.