A RARE 'POMEGRANATE' CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the box and cover carved in the form of a pomegranate, the cover with a landscape scene depicting lingzhi fungus and bamboo issuing from rocks and bats flying amid clouds in the distance, the sides with a leafy pomegranate branch

The shape of this box is quite unusual. Compare a related box of double pomegranate form in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, illustrated in Klaus J. Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten, Stuttgart, 1988, pl. 56.