ONE of the most interesting and important items in the sale of part of the Eumorfopoulos collections which took place at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms during May 28-31 was a third century B.C. toilet box. This was purchased by the National Arts Collection Fund for presentation to the British Museum (Bloomsbury). It is describe! as circular, with a diameter of 8 inches and a height of 5 inches. It is decorated in greenish-red lacquer on a thin layer of fabric. The straight sides and domed top are ornamented with scrolls, birds and stylized animals, while on the sides of the cover are represented a horseman, a tiger and a charging bull on a chocolate brown ground enriched with silver inlay. With the box was a bronze mirror of the Warring States period (c. 481-221 B.C.) which had been found inside it. Among other antiquities of special interest was an example of the remarkable and rare bronze-covered wine vessels of the little-known Shang Dynasty (? 1766-? 1122 B.C.), this specimen having a silvery-green and red-brown patina, a Kmer female torso in grey limestone of the eleventh century of our era, a period of perhaps the greatest efflorescence of the Kmer art of southeastern Asia, and the magnificent gold furnishings of a fifteenth century Ming emperor's tomb.