LARGE GILT-DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE QILIN BOX WITH COVER QING DYNASTY, JIAQING MARK AND POSSIBLY OF

LARGE GILT-DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE 'QILIN' BOX WITH COVER QING DYNASTY, JIAQING MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD 清 嘉慶款 粉彩描金麒麟開光博古圖大捧盒 the domed cover finely painted with two qilin with flower vase and books nearby in a flower-band cartouche, the sides of the cover and the box similarly decorated with butterflies, flowers and stylised patterns in cartouches or roundels, all against a continuous key-fret ground with gilt highlights, the base inscribed with a six-character Jiaqing mark in iron-redDimensions:26cm diameter