A CHINESE BAMBOO 'DOUBLE-LOZENGE' BOX AND COVER

A CHINESE BAMBOO 'DOUBLE-LOZENGE' BOX AND COVER
18TH CENTURY OR LATER

The top with interlinked squares decorated with a key fret border, carved all over in low relief with stylised lotus scrolls, raised on a short straight foot, 32.5cm. (2)

Cf. A related bamboo 'double lozenge' box carved with a similar decoration in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, vol.44, p.79, pl.72.