The body carved from one piece of rock crystal, set with rubies and an emerald in finely crafted gold mounts, the lid attached on one side with a delicate gold clasp, underside with undecorated rock crystal body.

Literature: Jaffer 2013, pp.32, 90, no.2.

Exhibited: The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, p.92, no.62
Grand Palais, Paris 2017, p.142, no.108
The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p.166, no.110
The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, p.191, no.114
de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2018, p. 174, no. 52.

Note: A similar gem set rock crystal box is at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1982, no.373, p.122). That entry notes other examples in the British Museum and in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. A further example was sold Christie's, London, 6 October 2011, lot 382.