A MASSIVE GILT-PAINTED BLACK LACQUER RECTANGULAR BOX AND FLAT COVERProbably 17th century The flat cover delicately painted in sepia and gilt tones with a lone fisherman in an extensive lakeside landscape scene shaded with willows pines, the sides of the box and cover with red-lacquered basket-weave panels set within key-pattern borders. 29 3/4 x 11 1/2in (75.6 x 29.2cm) 或為十七世紀 黑漆描金繪山水圖蓋盒 For a similar late Ming dynasty box dated to 1633, see Klaus J Brandt, Chinesische Lackarbeiten , Linden Museum, Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 150-151, no. 99. Another ofparable size dated to the seventeenth century is illustrated by James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, pp. 142-143, no. 66.