A FINE CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER BOX AND COVER

Description:

China, 16th/ 17th c.
D. 8 cm
Round shape, the domed lid carved in various reliefs with three deer framed by jagged rocks and gnarled pines, the box with a scene of two scholars and a page on the riverbank, the insides lacquered black.
Old German private collection, according to tradition acquired in the 1920s - Minor restorations