Travel stationery case

[Travel Stationery Case]

Travel Stationery Case, Qing Qianlong, box length 74 cm, width 29 cm, height 14 cm, box bottom and box cover height 7 cm each
The lid of the box is equipped with a gold plated secret lock, and the key hole is set at the bottom of the box. Open the box and form a small square table. Close the lid and bottom of the box to form a table. The table is 74 centimeters long, 58 centimeters wide, and 30.7 centimeters high. The legs of the table are designed in the box slot, supported by movable thin plates, and fixed with copper gilding buckles, with a clever design
The box is made of red sandalwood, which is folded and unfolded as a table and closed as a box. There are two drawers and boxes of the same size in the box. Each drawer and box has two layers of multi treasure boxes with different forms, which can place 64 sets of small and fine four treasures of the study and miscellaneous articles, such as white jade washing, Songhua River inkstone, jade arm rest, pen container, animal town, stone seal, gold cloud dragon pattern pen, etc. Each article has a fixed position, and the box is specially made according to its shape and size, which fits perfectly. These artifacts are among the best articles in the study that Emperor Qianlong liked to use and enjoy. Among them, the small scroll of colored landscape paintings and the landscape brochure page of Zhou Kun, a court painter of the Qing Dynasty, and the two volumes of “Lei Yuan Li Yu”, both of which are small in size and exquisite in shape, are among the best pieces to enjoy in the palm. There is also a backgammon box with chess pieces and a chessboard. The box is also equipped with a small wax lamp, on which a bracket is used to fix a copper plated painting enamel Western landscape map cover
This stationery box contains a variety of study utensils in one box, which can be opened anytime and anywhere as a kang table for inscribing poems and lyrics, handling government affairs, playing chess, discussing chess, and appreciating calligraphy and painting. According to the records of the Manufacturing Office, this set of stationery table boxes was made in the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757). This box is exquisitely designed and most suitable for traveling. It is a masterpiece of stationery in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

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