清十八世紀 黃花梨長方盒

of rectangular form, the cover comprising a single panel slightly rounded at the edges and short short straight sides with metal reinforcements, the cover hinged on the back to the box of corresponding form, the opposite side embellished at the centre with a circular lock plate set with a lobed ruyi-shaped hasp, flanked on the shorter sides with a pair of 'C'-shaped loop handles suspended from lobed circular roundels, the densely grained wood of a warm reddish-brown colour