exquisitely carved, of square section, comprising a large bottom compartment in the form of two large stacked albums, the cover carved with rosettes within cellular diapers bordered by keyfrets, supporting on one side a smaller, similarly decorated rectangular box and another box worked as a bound book with clasps on the side, the latter ornately carved through layers of red, green and ochre lacquer, depicting on its cover fruiting and flowering medallions reserved on a diaper ground, beside a two-tiered box and cover in the form of three stacked handscrolls, each elaborately worked with meandering floral scrolls and tied with a strap, all supported on a square plinth raised on four cabriole legs connected by horizontal stretchers, the scrolled apron encircled by a floral meander echoing the decoration on the scrolls, the interiors and base lacquered black