A carved cinnabar lacquer spittoon and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period 清乾隆 剔紅纏枝蓮紋葵花式唾盂

Related boxes include one in the Taipei Palace Museum, illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Carved Lacquer Ware in the National Palace Museum, 1972, cat. no. 43; another in the Sanxi Tang (Studio of the Three Rarities) of Yangxin Dian (Hall of Mental Cultivation), illustrated in Gerald Holzwarth, ‘The Qianlong Emperor as Art Patron and the Formation of the Collections of the Palace Museum, Beijing’, China: The Three Emperors. 1662-1795, London, 2005, p. 44, fig. 15; and a third example, published in Qingdai gongting shenghuo/Life in the Forbidden City, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 127.