The cylindrical box is inlaid in red with a phoenix flying above flowering branches, the branches with red blossoms and yellow and green leaves, all within finely incised lines on a coffee brown ground, the sides with narrow cross-hatched borders. The interior is plain brown.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 145

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from John Sparks, 16 October 1968 (£273); formerly in the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, sold Sotheby’s, London, 15 October 1968, lot 43

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2