A MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID BLACK LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER Junyu Shi seal mark, 17th century The cover exquisitely inlaid in iridescent mother-of-pearl and gold-leaf with a scholar reclining on his guqin while reading a book beside a boy attendant, all beneath a craggy cliff issuing gnarled pine, the interior of the cover with a bird on a branch and two seals, Zhao and Shi, the box with two antique vessels in the interior, signed on the base with the seal mark Junyu Shi inlaid in mother-of-pearl. 9cm (3 1/2in) diam. (2).