Queensland police say a woman's body found "wrapped in a cloth" and sealed in a metal box on the verandah of a Brisbane waterside apartment was there "more than a week".

On Tuesday afternoon, police said a postmortem examination had established "the body is that of a female of Asian ethnicity".

Legal confirmation of the woman's identity might be days or weeks away, police said.

"However, distinctive jewellery located on the body has been positively identified by the family as belonging to 30-year-old Qiong Yan, a Chinese national," the police statement said.

Police have spoken to Ms Yan's mother.

Ms Yan was reported to New South Wales police as a missing person on April 12.

Speaking earlier in the day at a press conference, Detective Inspector Tim Trezise said police discovered the body on the balcony of the unit at the Newport Hamilton Apartment block on Monday afternoon.

"The body was located inside a large metal box," he said.

"The box was sealed and [the body] was wrapped in a cloth.

He said when police opened the metal box, they discovered a badly decomposed body.

Police were conducting a search of the apartment following a missing person report made in New South Wales "some weeks ago" in relation to a 30-year-old woman, who is a foreign national.

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