A carved cinnabar lacquer 'dragon' screen, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 剔紅雙龍戲珠紋插屏

Compare a carved lacquer box with similar decoration, formerly in the Qing Court collection, and now housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Lacquer Wares of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, pl. 46; a cabinet decorated with sinuous dragons, preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, accession no. guqi 000310N000000000; and a smaller cabinet, from the collection of Kamiya Denbei, now in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, published in Jō Okada, Tôyô no Urushi Kôgei  [Eastern Lacquer Art], Tokyo, 1977, pl. 580.