Box (a), with Lid (b) Materials: copper, enamel Colors: Pink ground, blue lining, vari-colored Dimensions: a: 3-3/4" diameter, 2-5/8" high; b: 3-3/4" dia. Remarks: Round, corrugated walls; center medallion with figures January 1969 condition good Box (a) with lid (b), Canton enamel. Round with 17 scallops, fluted sides, painted in famille rose colors. a (box), fruit & flower medallions on rose ground, plain turquoise interior; chip in enamel in center. b (lid) center scene has 2 figures being served tea. 12 fruit & flower medallions on a rose ground; blue interior D. 9.6 cm; H 3.7cm Enamel on copper. Michael Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels, Oxford University Press, Ashmolean Museum, 1978, pl. 8, p. 16; pl. 38, p. 37. Box, with lid (b); metal with painted enamel decoration: Round with lobed sides, (a) on short foot, brass inner rim over the dome shaped lid (b) fits. Spotted blue interior of each. large circular medallion on lid with depiction of two men seated at a table, and another standing, in architectural setting. Floral medallions with alternating blue, turquoise and yellow grounds with prunes, peach, pomegranate, etc.; on the mottled pink sides of both (a&b). Dia (a&b) 9.9cm; H (a) 4cm; (b) 3cm Copper with painted enamel decoration; brass rims Painted enamel ware known in China as Yang Ts'u, "Foreign porcelain", referring to the foreign origin of the enameling technique.