Red sandalwood carved book box with pine and bamboo patterns

[Red sandalwood carved book box with pine and bamboo patterns]

Red sandalwood carved book box with pine and bamboo patterns, Qing Qianlong, height 5.3 cm, length 19.5 cm, width 14.85 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The box is made of red sandalwood in a book style and is carved. The carving technique combines carving and deep carving. The ground is a deeply carved tree trunk with boils and scars. The tree trunk is carved with pines, beautiful bamboos, and ganoderma lucidum. The composition is appropriate, with clear layers, and an elegant artistic conception
This piece of work has a delicate and deep cutting technique, with flat and round knives merging and seeing each other, vividly demonstrating the natural characteristics of pine and bamboo. Inside the box is a copy of Dong Gao’s book “Yi Zhan Tian Xin”.