A FINE PAINTED LACQUER AND BASKETWORK BOX AND COVER Ming Dynasty, 17th century (2)A FINE PAINTED LACQUER AND BASKETWORK BOX AND COVERMing Dynasty, 17th centuryOf rectangular form with canted corners, the cover painted and gilt with a gentleman and attendant in a tree-strewn riverside setting before a pavilion set against distant mountains, the interior similarly decorated with figures in a riverside landscape, within a gilt decorated floral border, the shaped basketwork panels to the exterior set within red lacquered borders.41.5cm (16 3/8in) long (2).Exhibited: Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., Summer 2005, no. 88.Compare with a similar rectangular painted lacquer basket work box, published East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp.142-143, no. 66.