A VERY RARE LARGE CARVED RED AND BLACK LACQUER PEACH-FORM 'SHOU’ BOX AND COVERQIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)The top of the cover is finely carved with a panel of conforming peach shape and is deeply carved on a diaper ground with a bowl containing auspicious emblems and a shou medallion flanked by two wan symbols beneath a ruyi-shaped panel containing a scene of Shoulao flying on a crane above the Eight Immortals, Liu Hai, and another immortal, possibly Dongfang Shuo, shown riding on a bat, all enclosed by a border of bats and clouds beneath a pair of confronting fish. The sides of the cover and the box are carved with a key-fret border at the rims and two rows of sixty permutations of the shou character on a leiwen ground. The interior and base are lacquered black.17 1/8 in. (43.4 cm.) wide