Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior gifts for her features a pagoda in landscape

features a pagoda in landscape and is very finely done

it is not a crack or chip

The sculpture measures 6 inches tall x 4 inches wide x 3 inches deep

The nutcracker stands 8" tall

Yellowknife

Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior gifts for her features a pagoda in landscapeI 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