Shallow Imperial box and cover, with rounded, five-lobed sides, flanged rim and spreading foot. The matching cover with a slightly projecting flat top, on which is carved a landscape with scholars in pavilions and figures on terraces by a lake, with wutong and pine trees and distant mountains, within a diapered border. On the lobed sides below, a design with blooms floating on a sea of waves, repeated on the sides of the box above a lotus-petal border. Incised on the base and filled with gold, the six-character reign-mark, and inside the cover, the inscription:

勝遊寶盒

Shengyou baohe

‘Delight in wandering at leisure’ precious box

Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.