2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Art Gallery, The Ch💙inese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. 75.

Layered Beauty: The Baoyizhai Collection of Chinese Lacquer, Art Muse𝕴um, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong 🐼Kong, Hong Kong, 2010, cat. no. 49.

《中國漆藝二千年》，香港東方陶瓷學會，香港中文大學文物館，香港，1993年，編號75

《疊彩：抱一齋藏中國漆器》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2010年，編號49

Finely carved with scholars in a landscape setting, this box is notable for the illusion of vast spa🐻ce which has been created through the overlapping mountains that appear to float and recede into the distance, a technique commonly employed in landscape painting. 

Compare a related box of smaller dimensions similarly depicting a scholar sitting leisurely in a garden, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Anthology of Chinese Art. Ming Lacquer, vol. 5, Fuzhou, 1995, pl. 158. See also a dish carved with a scholar gazing into the distance from a pavilion, illustrated in Karamono. Imported Lacquerwork. Chinese, Korean and Ryukyuan, Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya, 1997, pl. 63; and a rectangular tray, decorated with scholars gathered in a garden, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Shanghai, 2006, pl. 193. For a prototype of this type of box see one, attributed to the Yongle period (1403-24), in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, published in Hai-wai yi-chen. Qiqi /Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Lacquerware, National Pal🔯ace Museum, Taipei, 1987, pl. 108. 

此盒上山水人物雕琢細緻精美，遠處山巒重疊，天、地、水三種錦紋創🌺造了廣闊的空間的錯覺，景物的遠近虛實，仿似一幅山水畫展現於眼前，令人賞心悅目。

一件同樣飾山水人物圖但尺寸較小的剔紅盒，為北京故宮博物院所藏，見《中國漆器全集》，福州，1995年，卷5，圖版158。一件同類紋飾的小盤，見《唐物漆器：中國．朝鮮．琉球》，德川美術館，名古屋，1997年，圖版63；北京故宮博物藏一件同類紋飾的長方盤，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集．元明漆器》，香港，2006年，圖版193。此類剔紅漆盒源自明永樂朝，一永樂例藏美國三藩市亞洲藝術博物館，見《海外遺珍漆器》，台北，1987年，圖ꩵ版108。