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(US$8,000-10,000)
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A RARE CARVED AMBER VASE AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
The translucent crizzled material well carved as a flattened baluster vase with bands of ruyi-heads, shou characters and pendent plantain leaves within keyfret borders, divided by ferocious lion mask handles suspending loose rings at the neck, the domed cover with a recumbent Buddhistic lion and its cub carved in the round forming the finial (inner rim of cover restored, break to ring restuck)
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high, box
19TH CENTURY
The translucent crizzled material well carved as a flattened baluster vase with bands of ruyi-heads, shou characters and pendent plantain leaves within keyfret borders, divided by ferocious lion mask handles suspending loose rings at the neck, the domed cover with a recumbent Buddhistic lion and its cub carved in the round forming the finial (inner rim of cover restored, break to ring restuck)
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) high, box