A CHINESE ` MIAOQI` POLYCHROME LACQUER COSMETIC BOX AND COVER Probably Ming Dynasty The cylindrical body painted in green, black and red lacquer and gilt with panels of figurative scenes from folklore and literature as well as an elephant beneath a band of cloud scrolls, the convex cover with a maiden carrying two buckets, the edges with cranes in flight among stylised clouds, all against a red lacquer ground sprinkled with gold dust, 20cm high, 20.7cm diameter (2) Provenance: John Hilliard collection 或為 明 朱漆描金繪人物圖紋圓形蓋盒 來源： 約翰·希利亞德收藏。 For a comparable example see Lee Yu-Kuan, Oriental Lacquer Art, 1974, p.120, fig.56