Round box with red plum and orchid patterns

[Remove red plum and orchid round box]

Remove red plum and orchid round box, Ming Yongle, height 4.5 cm, caliber 12.9 cm, foot diameter 8.3 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Box steamed cake type, female mouth, concave sole. Carve red paint patterns on the yellow paint plain ground. The cover is carved with plum and orchid. The plum and orchid crisscross naturally, fresh and elegant. The box wall is carved with flower patterns for one week. The outsole is black paint, and the left side is carved with a knife filled with gold “made in Xuande of the Ming Dynasty”. The color of the cover is different from that of the box. Although it is a work of the same period, it is not the original
Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are regarded as the four gentlemen in the flower. Literati often use them to express their noble qualities and feelings, and thus become a common decorative theme in handicrafts.

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