A moulded gourd cricket cage waisted with a flared neck mounted with a hardwood collar, the body moulded with a broad band of cell pattern enclosing characters above a border of ruyi-heads, the wood cover mounted with a tortoiseshell dome carved and reticulated with cranes in flight among pine branches above a pierced cash screen -- 6in. (15.2cm) long, Qianlong two-character mark and of the period.