A POLYCHROME-LACQUERED SQUARE BOX AND COVER 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

the cover incised and painted with red, green, yellow, blue and black lacquers on a orange-brown ground, with sloping sides each with a recessed panel reserving a pair of confronting phoenix, the center with a pair of butterflies forming a roundel encircled within an archaistic foliate scroll, within a square form band cornered by arched lotus petals trailing leafy scrolls, bordered by flying bats and lotus blooms, and an archaistic band of attenuated chilong, the base similarly decorated, the interior and base lacquered black (2)