A Beijing dark-blue glass dish

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A Beijing dark-blue glass dish
in the form of an open lotus, carved to the interior with a turtle and coiled snake among simulated waves, the foot formed from the floral stalks -- 5¼.in (13.3cm) wide, (crack); and a small blue glass pendant carved with a monkey on a peach -- 1½.in (3.8cm), high, both 19th Century.
See Colour Plate 46 and 47. (2)

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