QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

See a related jade-inlaid zitan square treasure box of similar composition but larger in size, also dated Qianlong period, in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, in which the drawers were comparted to store snuff bottles, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: The Imperial Packing Art of Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2007, p.162 (fig. 1). A slightly smaller box was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong 29 November 2005, lot 1568.