The box is painted with two cocks between two sprays of leaves in predominant shades of gold and red on a speckled black ground. The underside and interior with a brown ground.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 152

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; a gift to Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from Mrs. Watt, Hemingford Grey House, Huntingdon, on Christmas Day 1967

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2