A rare Chinese reticulated lacquer box and cover, Qing Dynasty, of compressed globular shape supported on a short foot, the pierced domed cover brightly painted and enhanced with gilt, depicting in the central medallion a red flower and other smaller florets borne on a network of foliate scrolls and palmette leaves, all encircled by a brown-ground gilt key-fret band, the sides of the cover and the box similarly decorated with florets and leafy scrolls, the base applied with brown lacquer and finely painted with a leafy spray of succulent peaches below a gilt horizontal four-character Yongzheng reign mark and probably of the period, approximately 10cm diameter x 5cm high The articulation of the succulent peaches on the base, suspended from leafy sprays, is reminiscent of that on a Yongzheng mark and period enamel box and cover from Alice Boney, illustrated in Fang Jing Pei et. al., Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York, 1997, fig. 108. For a larger Yongzheng period gilded lacquer box of closely related form, but without reticulation, but decorated with similar foliate scrolls in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Harmony and Integrity. The Yongzheng Emperor and His Times, Taipei, 2009, cat. no. II-96.清 ''雍正年制''款镂雕彩绘漆盒品相报告: the interiors possibly later gilt and top and bottom exteriors with traces of some old restoration and some paint flaking piece of the gilt paint on the interior flaked away measuring approximately 1cm x 5mm