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A RARE AMBER VASE AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Of flattened baluster shape, finely carved from a single piece of amber with two birds on a flowering prunus branch on one side, and on the reverse, with a monkey climbing up a peach tree and another seated beneath, the scenes divided on the sides by bamboo, between ruyi bands and a further lotus scroll at the shoulder flanked by a pair of loop handles suspending loose rings, the domed cover surmounted by a coiled dragon finial (two rim chips restuck)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Of flattened baluster shape, finely carved from a single piece of amber with two birds on a flowering prunus branch on one side, and on the reverse, with a monkey climbing up a peach tree and another seated beneath, the scenes divided on the sides by bamboo, between ruyi bands and a further lotus scroll at the shoulder flanked by a pair of loop handles suspending loose rings, the domed cover surmounted by a coiled dragon finial (two rim chips restuck)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high