MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Two red lacquer boxes of similar size and similarly carved with lychees borne on leafy branches, are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and are illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors, Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, p. 66, nos. 48 and 49, where they are dated Ming dynasty, 16th century.