Lot 3580. A carved cinnabar lacquer circular box and cover, Qianlong incised and gilt six-character mark and of the period (1736-1795); 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 400,000. Price Realized HKD 375,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011. 

The cover deeply carved to depict a scholar standing beneath a pine tree accompanied by an attendant on the banks of a river in a mountainous landscape setting, the sides of the box and cover crisply carved with keyfret pattern, the interior and base lacquered black, the body core material of metal, with the four-character mark, Xian Shan Bao He, 'Treasure box of the Immortal Mountain' on the inside of the cover, the gilt reign mark incised on the countersunk base.