A carved cinnabar lacquer 'figural' box and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 剔紅人物故事圖蓋盒

Compare a similar lacquer box in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition Gugong Qiqi Tezhan Mulu [Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Lacquer Objects in the Palace Museum], Taipei, 1981, pl. 44; another preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum. Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 40; and a third example from the Baoyizhai Collection, published in Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, Hong Kong, 2010, pl. 49.