A Chinese export lacquer rectangular counter box and cover in the form of a book, mid-19th century, the interior fitted with five interfitting boxes of smaller book form, each cover with gilt cornucopia and flowers, total length 27.4cm, containing a collection of Chinese Canton export mother-of-pearl gaming counters, comprising thirty-one larger fish, sixty smaller fish, thirty-six slender rectangular, forty-two smaller rectangular, forty-six various sized circular, eighteen shaped rectangular and eighteen smaller shaped rectangular, the majority with incised decoration (minor faults).