• Dimension: Diameter: 3 5/16 in (8.4 cm)
• Estimate From: $1800
• Estimate To: $2200

The circular box is overall covered with fine cafe-au-lait glaze, the cover finely decorated in gilt over the glaze with a stylized flower motif surrounded dots and ruyi symbols, all enclosed by geometric frieze and the outermost further painted with a band of dots. The body similarly painted with a band of ruyi heads spaced by circles below floral-formed dots. The base inscribed in gilt with a six character 'QIANLONG' mark. Qing Dynasty period.

Compare a tea-dust glazed box decorated with a similar gilt design, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum's Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, cat. no. 145.