Carved Red Orchid Pavilion Treasure Box

[Clear Red Orchid Pavilion Treasure Box]

Clear Red Orchid Pavilion Treasure Box, Qing Qianlong, 11.8 cm high, 26.4 cm long, 20.65 cm wide< The box is in the shape of a cloud head, painted red throughout, and the cover is carved with a curved water flow cup. The cover wall and the box wall each have four openings, and the interior is decorated with brocade flower patterns. The inside and outside of the vessel are painted with black paint, and the middle of the outer bottom is engraved with a gold regular script "made in the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty", while the middle of the cover is engraved with a gold regular script "Orchid Pavilion Treasure Box" name and color tag. Based on the characteristics of water ripples as fine as hair, it is inferred that this lacquer box should be made by the manufacturer's office and ordered to be woven and manufactured in Suzhou< According to the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection", on the third day of March in the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo, and other 41 literati and scholars gathered at the Orchid Pavilion in Kuaiji for a banquet to dispel misfortune. Lanting is located on a high mountain, surrounded by lush forests and bamboo groves, and surrounded by a winding stream. The wine glass is placed in the stream to float. Everyone sits on the bank of the Qushui River in twos and threes, and whoever stops in front of the wine glass will take a drink and compose a poem. Although there are no strings and orchestras to play, drinking alcohol while composing poetry is enough to express their respective feelings
The painted curved water cup on the cover of the carved red orchid pavilion treasure box and the carved red flowing cup treasure box are almost identical, apparently from the same manuscript. Looking at the archives of the Qing Dynasty palace, it can be found that the emperor often requested the manufacturing office to reserve samples for similar designs or designs that the emperor believed were good


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