（清中到清晚雕吉祥花籃格子方窗）This larger size antique Chinese lattice window is made of a dense Chinese wood, likely a type of Chinese cedar. It has a rare and graceful lattice design of a flower basket in the middle of the window to bless a home or a building with the embedding meaning of "peace" or "harmony".

The whole latticework is constructed by joining all the short thin wood rods or sticks together with Chinese traditional joinery without nails to form the desired shapes. The carved ornaments serve as supports for area latticework as well as for decorative purpose. The composed flower basket has a long arch shape handle with an up-side down auspicious bat underneath the top of the handle. Such bat motif and the placement of the bat with the object is not uncommon in Chinese art and evolves from a long river of Chinese tradition in art. Other carved auspicious symbols include Buddhist-hand fruit, peony flower, Ruyi or Ling-Zhi (the tiny cloud like carving), and others, as well as a male and a female figure. The entire latticework with its layered “steps” in design also embeds the longing within everyday life for a more prosperity future to come.

This window is in excellent condition and will grace a wall of a home with its artistic and beautiful image! Estimated to be around 150 years old or so. Lightly refinished.

Dimensions: 47 3/4" L x 49 1/4" H x 1 1/4" D

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