A very similar box and cover from the Ming dynasty is illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Ancient Chinese Lacquerware, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing 1987, p.79, ill.49 ; compare also with two other boxes with the same floral border and the same kind of scene on the cover in D. Clifford, Chinese Craved Lacquer, Bamboo Publishing Ltd., London 1992, pp.51-52, pl.33-34