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The Congratulatory
Gift for the Thai King's 60th Anniversary
Artist：Gloria Hsu
Art Work ：LONGEVITY AND PROSPERITY WITHOUT LIMIT
Size：51.5 x 43.5cm (Without Frame)
Material：Leather
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The artistic work uses the skills of leather carving and color drawing. With its elegance behind simplicity, its beauty in plainness, it perfectly combines elegant flowers with bright colors to express great blessing of admiration and praise for the Thai King.
For Chinese, butterflies are the symbols of auspice and longevity since “Butterfly” shares a same sound with the Chinese word “Die” which is similar to octogenarian. In addition, a butterfly is so beautiful and graceful that is often compared to love and happy marriage.
A couple of colorful butterflies express a blessing for celebrating Thai King’s golden wedding anniversary.
The growing trailing plant with flowers hiding nine Chinese “Fu” words expresses a symbol of auspiciousness, which means longevity and prosperity. In addition, the trailing plant starts in the pattern of “∞” and ends in the pattern of “∞” as well, which means best wishes forever.
The theme of artistic work is blooming flowers with the bright yellow color in the background, which also makes a metaphor that the energy of glory is the most beautiful manifestation of the divinity. Furthermore, small ladybugs on flowers show innocent children's fun to pleasure the birthday person.
Besides the purpose of blessing, the artists would also like to express the ideal life feelings and the connotation of spirit beyond the meaning of “Longevity and Prosperity without Limit”.
