Carved red round box with nine dragons

[Clear red round box with nine dragons]

Clear red round box with nine dragons, Ming Xuande, height 8.2 cm, diameter 19.8 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Box wooden tire, round, flat top, straight wall, flat bottom, lying foot. Carve red paint patterns on the yellow paint plain ground. The cover is decorated with cloud and dragon patterns. The hair of the dragon rushes forward, the mouth is closed, the body is bent and strong, and the eyes are dotted with black paint. The wall decoration is cloud pattern. The inside and outside of the box are painted with black lacquer and filled with a gold imperial poem: “Yongle created the red lacquer, which should be seen by Wen and Sun. It was originally made from the orchard, which is also similar to the Kentang. The colored layer is covered with ochre, and the carving patterns are fine into silk. The Jiulong geometries are slightly different, and the powder is Weng Yi. The Emperor Qianlong and Wuxu inscriptions.” And the two small seals of “Qian” and “Long”. The left side of the outsole is engraved with a six-character vertical line with a gold regular script “made in the year of Xuande of the Ming Dynasty”
The body of this box is thick, the paint is thick, the paint color is pure, the paint is fine, the carving is round, the knife is skillful, the grinding is smooth, the pattern is compact, the dragon pattern is carved forcefully, all aspects reflect the characteristics of the Xuande dynasty lacquerware


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