Open dense black masses with fine white cuts, short tapering wedges and tiny light holes following the form; black structure stays connected, paper reserves precise, no broad gouges or random scratch texture. Resemblance in big shapes only: silhouette, pose, proportions, large black areas. Below fingertip scale use only white cut and tapering wedge. Any eyes or nose are reserved paper shapes with one cut highlight. Engraved texture shows everywhere. Eye and coat colours become distinct values; the palette cannot hold every hue. No photographic detail, crisp strands or glossy eye reflections.
Square 1:1 frame. Seen from directly above, a round bamboo steamer with its lid lifted away holds six pleated dumplings in a ring around one dumpling in the centre, each with a crimped fan of folds along its top edge. Curls of steam rise from the ring and spiral toward the camera. The woven bamboo rim forms a thick circle that fills most of the frame, with the dumplings sharpest at the centre and a few sprigs of chive lying across the rim at the lower left.
Dense black masses surround the ring, with the dumplings, steam and bamboo weave described by fine white cuts, the steam as the brightest open paper, and the pleats as short tapering wedges. No part of the plate or steamer carries lettering.
