of quatrefoil section, the top of the cover deftly carved in relief with a mountainous landscape depicting a small bridge in the foreground, with leafy shrubs behind cragged peaks of various heights and pine growing from overhanging rocks, all reserved on a finely incised ground of cresting waves in gilt, the sides similarly decorated with a band of scrolling foliage and waves, the sides of the box skilfully worked in relief with a wide key-fret band reserved against a wave ground, all divided by a band of waves above and a classic scroll below, the interior of the box intricately incised and gilt-decorated with a ferocious dragon, its menacing face framed by a flowy mane and the sinuous body terminating in a bifurcated tail, the stone of an attractive variegated tone of predominantly liver-red and beige tone suffused with faint violet inclusions, the details further accentuated by traces of paint