A small carved cinnabar lacquer 'lychee' box and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 剔紅雙荔枝式蓋盒

Compare a polychrome lacquer box preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu [Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Lacquer Objects in the Palace Museum], Taipei, 1981, pl. 93; and a larger box depicting two melons, published in Derek Clifford, Chinese Carved Lacquer, London, 1992, pl. 110.