Late Ming or early Qing Dynasty, 17th century Carved in deep rounded relief on both the box and cover, one side depicting nine boys playing around a large stone fish basin in a garden setting with a majestic pine, maple, plantain and other saplings on a dense cell ground, an elegant lady watches the activity from a rectangular window in a brick building nearby, the other side with two scholars and their attendants under a sprawling wutong and amidst other trees and saplings including maple on a raised promontory with surrounding rockwork, the interior rim edges lacquered red and the interiors black-lacquered. 7 1/8in (18.1cm) diameter