A FINE PAINTED LACQUER AND BASKETWORK BOX AND COVERMing Dynasty, 17th centuryOf rectangular form with canted corners, the cover painted and gilt with a gentleman and attendant in a tree-strewn riverside setting before a pavilion set against distant mountains, the interior similarly decorated with figures in a riverside landscape, within a gilt decorated floral border, the shaped basketwork panels to the exterior set within red lacquered borders.41.5cm (16 3/8in) long (2).For further information on this lot please visit theCondition Report: General signs of rub and wear, losses to the lacquer and the painting. Nibbles to the edges. Surface craquelure with a star crack to the bottom.Edges and corners with spots of colour retouch. The inside sides of the cover with lacquer retouched. Crescent-shaped crack line to one of the short side of the cover.Provenance: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價Exhibited: Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., Summer 2005, no. 88.Compare with a similar rectangular painted lacquer basket work box, published 'East Asian Lacquer', The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp.142-143, no. 66.