Elegant Music (Paperweight) Picture 1

As a part of the traditional Chinese Four Treasures of the Study (文房四宝), this paperweight takes on a new look different from traditional ones by the artisan’s inlaying copper in wood to increase its weight and applying the traditional Chinese bo luo lacquer, or pineapple lacquer literally, a mixture of raw lacquer, turquoise, cinnabar, coral, ect.