A FINE IVORY SEWING BOX, China, Jiaqing/Daoguang period. The cover and four sides with figural urban scenes, bordered by floral scrolls and landscape scenes, the figures depicted at leisure, playing musical instruments etc., on four feet shaped like animal paws, the inside lined with turquoise silk, with multiple smaller compartments containing two ivory thimbles and three ivory yarn bobbins. The cover with a small plaque reading "souvenir". - Property from a European private collection, acquired in 2008 - Slightly chipped, the bottom part. rest.