The box is inlaid in mother-of-pearl with a peasant holding a basket in a small landscape on a black ground, the sides with bands of clouds within narrow star borders.

Norton dated this to c. 1600.

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, 13 March 1964 (£135); formerly with H.R.N. Norton, sold Sotheby’s, London, 26 March 1963, lot 29

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2