Small rectangular lacquer box and lid, decorated with a flowering chrysanthemum plant growing besides a stream; gold aventurine inside the lid and on the box bottom.

It is part of a rectangular two tiered box (RCIN 3484) for the incense game, with inset rim, the overfitting tier having a similar rim to accommodate the flat-topped cover. Decorated on the top and the sides, on a black ground, with flowering chrysanthemums growing by rocks on the banks of a stream, the blooms in full or partial relief and sometimes picked out in silver, the rocks in takamakie sprinkled with gold flecks, the edges gilt. The interiors black and the base decorated in nashiji. Other boxes contained within RCIN 3484 are a square three-tiered box, RCIN 29458, lined with white metal, a similar small rectangular boxes, RCIN 29456.

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