Round box with red pine, bamboo and plum patterns

[Remove the red pine, bamboo and plum with the pattern of “Three Friends of the Year and the Cold”]

Remove the red pine, bamboo and plum with the pattern of “Three Friends of the Year and the Cold”, Ming Jiajing, with a height of 8.8 cm and a diameter of 17 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The box is round and flat, with green paint as the ground and red paint as the surface. The cover is carved with a sea spray, with three stone pillars protruding from the middle, and three pine, bamboo and plum trees winding around the stone. At the top, the cursive characters “Fu”, “Lu” and “Shou” are curled up. The outer walls of the covers and implements are carved with phoenix and cranes flying among the auspicious clouds and on the sea and river cliffs. The foot is engraved with regular script and filled with gold “made in Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty”
The auspicious characters such as “Fu”, “Lu” and “Shou”, which are made by winding pine, bamboo and plum trees, are a typical decorative pattern in the Jiajing period, which has never been seen before. This is closely related to the belief of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyi in Taoism. Emperor Jiajing, in order to avert disasters and cure diseases and prolong his life, not only superstitious alchemists, but also particularly loved various auspicious objects, including pine, bamboo, plum and other decorative themes that implied longevity and auspiciousness, thus forming the decorative style of the artifacts in the Jiajing period.

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