TWO GILT BLACK LACQUER BOXES AND COVERS17th century One a square seal box with a landscape painted to the top and brown lacquer to the interior, wire panels to the sides; the other a scholars box with various interior sections and metal thread panels with geometric design between gilt swastika-cell ground at the edges. 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 6 3/4in (15.9 x 15.9 x 17.1cm), the square seal box; 12 1/2 x 6 x 7in (31.7 x 15.2 x 17.8cm), the scholar box (2). 十七世紀 黑漆描金蓋盒兩件 For a seal box with a very similar silver-wire basket-weave panel, of checker and twilled weave, producing a pattern of connected swastikas, see James C.Y. Watt, The Sumptuous Basket, Chinese Lacquer with Basketry Panels , China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York, 1985, pp. 64-65, no. 18.