A carved zitan square box and cover Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period

of square section with the top panel of the cover finely carved with a scholar and attendant waiting on a terrace for another scholar arriving on a donkey followed by his attendant, framed in a key-fret border, the sides decorated with quatrefoil panels enclosing deer, all reserved on a wan-diaper ground, supported on a shallow base with further panels containing flowers on a similar wan-diaper ground and supported on four bracket feet skirted by a band of lappets

Good overall condition with horizontal cracks inside the cover and inside the box ; some cracks under the base as well.
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