Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior tiny brushes black and grizzly bears

black and grizzly bears

but overall this piece is in great condition and really a marvelous piece

probably mid-20th century and Coushatta (Southeast U

This vintage Chinese cinnabar vase

with some wear to the wood around the edges at the top of the boot and a smallish white scuff mark on the surface of the wood near the top center on one side

Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior tiny brushes black and grizzly bearsI 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