The circular box is deeply carved in black relief with fruiting branches on a red ground of squared spirals.

These boxes when exported to Japan were used as Kogo (incense boxes) for the tea ceremony.

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 H. Longden, from the Antique Dealers’ Fair, London, 10 June 1959 (£35)

Location: Treasury, Gallery 2