Lacquer box with music boxes Black-ground lacquer with slightly raised two-tone gilding over a red bolus, wood. Model with slanted corners and slightly domed lid. Inside, four boxes for the corners and two more for the center, a small tray with a Jack of Diamonds and a tray with a King of Diamonds. Paper label on the base with the imprint "Schloß Neues Palais Zimmer No. 353 Lfde. No. 19". At least two boxes and some card trays missing, some edges bumped, a few cracks. H 10.4, W 36.3, D 29.3 cm. Canton, early 19th century. Literature Cf. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities. Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong.Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, Hong Kong-London 1997, no. 245.

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