Peony Blossoms and Mangosteen

This piece of artwork is a gift the artisan gave to his only daughter who was getting married when this item was being created. Two birds standing on the rock, a symbol of the artisan and his wife, are reluctantly bidding farewell to a pair of smaller birds, signifying the artisan’s daughter and her fiancée. The birds and peony blossoms in this work have been endowed with the artisan’s wishes for his daughter to fly high and live a happy life ever after, while the rock the two elderly birds standing on implying that the parents will always be there for the daughter.