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The design of these tiered carry boxes originated from food boxes 此提盒製作精巧，紫檀木製，堅實沉重，黃花梨底板，十分講究。雖然設
made mostly of bamboo and lightweight woods for easy carriage. 計源自一般食格，這類用珍貴木材製作，十分沉重不易攜帶，應是用於存
Attendants carrying them on outings are depicted in numerous 放貴重物品。
Ming paintings and other illustrations.
多層提盒的設計源自食格，常用竹器或雜木製作，取其輕便易提攜帶。許
This fine example, made in heavy and dense zitan wood with 多明朝繪畫以及其他圖例也有描繪侍從在出遊時拎着提盒的場景。
huanghuali wood insides, is likely to have derived from common
food boxes. These pieces made with precious hard woods are 王世襄及袁荃猷，《明式家具萃珍》，芝加哥及三藩市，1997年，頁
heavy and not suitable for carriage and were used probably to 149，中收錄一件相似提盒，羅伯特．雅各布遜及尼古拉斯．格林利，
contain valuables. 《明尼阿波利斯藝術博物館藏中國古典家具》，明尼阿波利斯，1999
年，頁199也錄有一相似例。
See a similar example, illustrated in Wang Shixiang and Curtis
Evarts, Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese
Furniture, Chicago and San Francisco, 1995, p. 145. For a
further example, see Robert D. Jacobsen and Nicholas Grindley,
Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minneapolis, 1999, p. 199.

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