Painted enamel string-joined stacked boxes with cloud decoration, Yung-chen reign (1723-1735) , Ch’ing dynasty

Painted enamel string-joined stacked boxes with cloud decoration, Yung-chen reign (1723-1735) , Ch’ing dynasty

• Image Number: K1E000509N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  A flat oval double decker box, the cover and the buttons attached on both sides of the box body are threaded together with yellow stripes. The inner and outer walls are painted with enamel. It has light blue glaze inside and multicolored auspicious clouds painted on the black outside, with the same ornamentation on both sides. The bottom is slightly concave, and the blue curly grass pattern is painted on the white ground to form a rectangular box, with a red “made in Yongzheng” line of Song typeface characters inside.