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Lot n° 379

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Exceptional rectangular box with two compartments. Dark wood (zitan?), inlaid on all sides with naturalistic motifs in hard stone (jade, soapstone and mother-of-pearl). The bottom in rosewood. It is decorated with camellias, peonies, prunes and chrysanthemums. The inlaid lid of a man carrying a sword near his horse greeting a scholar near a flock of sheep. In the sky, clouds, moon and crowned crane. 18th - 19th century. Dim.: 20x26x15.5 cm (missing in the hard stone motifs)

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