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An Elaborately-Carved White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle

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Bronze Mirror with Boss and Swallow Pattern

Bronze Mirror with Boss and Swallow Pattern
Han Dynasty. Bronze mirror has a spherical knob surrounded with eight bosses between which there...

A Gold-Splashed Bronze Tripod Censer

A Gold-Splashed Bronze Tripod Censer
The deep, waisted body raised on three elephant-head supports and set with a pair of angular loop...

A "copper pot" Duan inkstone

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Cut from brown-purple Duan stone, lustrous surface in rectangular form, thick and upright form,...

AD 1720 - 1800
Height: 5.8cm

Of flattened irregular pebble form, the stone of even, white color with areas of russet skin, carved on one side with Zhang Liang kneeling before an old man who is seated on the steps of a stone bridge beneath maple and pine trees to offer him a pair of shoes, the other side with the scholar standing on a rocky outcrop, raising a brush towards a chi dragon emerging from clouds above, stained bone stopper.
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