The box of large rectangular form, the flat cover deeply and crisply carved with figures in a fenced terrace in front of a pavilion amongst tall trees and jagged rockwork, a scholar riding assisted by two attendants, accompanied by a boy carrying a qin, standing next to a deer; a lotus pond in the distance, with three ducks and a flautist seated in a sampan beneath a willow tree, all below cloud scrolls and against a diaper ground, the sides carved with luxuriant flowering peonies; the interior of the box and of the cover lacquered in dark brown; with original Japanese wood box and cover.