Incised-gilt Qianlong six-character and Fuqin Baohe four-character marks and of the periodDeftly carved through thick layers of rich red lacquer, the domed cover with a hexagonal cartouche featuring an elderly scholar seated by a stream under a pine tree playing qin, gazing at his two young attendants carrying scholarly objects across a bridge amidst rocky outcrops, wutong and cypress trees, the cover's side decorated with six cartouches enclosing various floral sprays; the box similarly carved with six cartouches enclosing mountainous landscapes with deer and cranes, all reserved on a floral-honeycomb diaper ground and encased within key-fret borders, the interior and base lacquered black, the interior of the cover incised and gilt with a four-character fuqin baohe mark in kaishu script, 'Treasured Box of Fingers Playing the Qin', the base with incised and gilt six-character kaishu mark, fitted box. 28cm (11in) wide (3).