Ming Dynasty, 16th Century Decorated on the flat cover with a seated elegant woman with attendants in a flower-filled garden setting with bushes and rockwork with a pavilion entrance nearby, three sides of the box and cover with a continuous scene of birds and fruiting and blossoming branches in three tiers, the exception to the front where the design is interrupted by a single drawer with five-petalled flowers on a leafy tendril. 4 1/2 x 8 x 8in (11.4 x 20.3 x 20.3cm)