Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior tiny brushes Thin in places and thick

Thin in places and thick in others

and very New England coast

but I can't discern the rest of the letters

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Antique Finely Carved Large Chinese Cinnabar Box with Blue Enameled Interior tiny brushes Thin in places and thickI 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