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Description: | The gold and red dragons are on a black background containing ten pressed ink tablets in different colours with landscape scenes and poems by the Emperor on the reverse. Qing Dynasty. This box is painted in gold and red on a black lacquer background. Lacquer is a thick, dark, shiny varnish made from the sap of an East Asian tree, which was used in China to decorate and protect the surfaces of furniture and trinkets.The lid of this box is dominated by two large dragons, painted in contrasting shades of gold and red. The dragons face one another, brandishing their pointed red tongues, sharp teeth and vicious claws in a threatening manner. They are surrounded by forked red flames and stylised black and gold clouds. An inscription of Chinese characters runs vertically down the centre of the box lid, between the two dragons. This inscription records a visit by the Chinese Emperor to the West Lake. Inside this box are ten pressed ink tablets in different colours, engraved with Chinese landscape scenes showing mountains, trees, rivers, bridges and buildings. Poems by the Emperor in gold Chinese characters have been applied to the surface of the ink tablets. The tablets are arranged on a background decorated with a honeycomb pattern in gold and blue.
A rectangular lacquer box with lid decorated with gold and red dragons. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Containers Culture Asian art Ink Decorative arts Mythology Landscape Chinese Decorative Art China Georgian period | Temporal: | 1700 - 1799
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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