The miniature bronze box is rectangular in shape and painted in green. It has a hinged opening to the rear and on its lid there is a cold painted bronze figure of a small boy, shown wearing a tassle hat and an orange robe. He is shown sitting by a small table with two containers on it. The box was part of the late 19th Century fashion in Vienna for collecting cold painted bronze figures and objets d'art, many of which depicted subject matter from the Orient, a place which had captured the imagination of many Europeans in the period.
