A carved polychrome lacquer 'pomegranate' box and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 剔彩石榴紋蓋盒

Compare a 'pomegranate' box 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. 91; and another smaller 'peach' box in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, published in Edward F. Strange, Catalogue of Chinese Lacquer, London, 1925, pl. 53.