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A SILVER AND GOLD WIRE INLAID HARDWOOD BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The square upper surface of the box finely inlaid with gold wire to depict a bat in flight above a flowering prunus branch against a silver wire diaper-ground, all within a key-fret band border, the sloping sides carved with lotus lappets above straight sides decorated with a dense wan-pattern ground, repeated on the box, raised on four shallow bracket feet
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) square, box
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The square upper surface of the box finely inlaid with gold wire to depict a bat in flight above a flowering prunus branch against a silver wire diaper-ground, all within a key-fret band border, the sloping sides carved with lotus lappets above straight sides decorated with a dense wan-pattern ground, repeated on the box, raised on four shallow bracket feet
7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) square, box