MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

Compare two red lacquer boxes in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, of approximately the same size and carved on the cover with scenes of scholars in a landscape, and on the box with blossoming flower branches, illustrated in Carving the Subtle Radiance of Colors, Treasured Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, p. 88, nos. 76 and 77, where they are dated 17th century and 16th-17th century, respectively.