Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior antique work on paper I especially love him from

I especially love him from the top view

Made of sea grass

The plate/dish measures about 6

The splint ash visible on the bottom of the basket reveals a rainbow of hues

Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior antique work on paper I especially love him fromI am amazed by the fineness of so many Chinese antiques, and the more I look at real Chinese Cinnabar carving, the more amazed I am. This unusually large box would have been entirely carved by hand, then coated with many successive layers of lacquer. Cinnabar takes its name from the red mineral, a form of mercury sulfide, used to dye the lacquer (while the other colors have sometimes been used, red is most common, most likely due to the association of