Ming Dynasty, 16th Century Delicately carved in relief with a seated figure of Budai resting on his travelling bag with a fly whisk in his left hand on a rising knoll with dense floral-cell-ground beneath a gnarled pine itself set against a ground of horizontal grooves with vertical ticks to describe the sky, the straight sides of the box and cover very neatly carved with a finely-channelled key-pattern band, a simple rounded foot ring and black-lacquered flat base. 2 1/2in (6.3cm) diameter