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A Chinese silver-gilt beetlenut set
comprising two circular boxes and covers decorated with panels of birds and flowers within prunus borders, a footed stand similarly decorated, a cylindrical jar with a continuous scene of figures among trees and rockwork within similar borders, and a flattened hexagonal pierced vase decorated with bats among peachsprays surrounding a a figural roundel and a coiled dragon among clouds above a leaping carp -- 5.in (12.7cm) high, stamped marks.
See Colour Plate 5. (6)
comprising two circular boxes and covers decorated with panels of birds and flowers within prunus borders, a footed stand similarly decorated, a cylindrical jar with a continuous scene of figures among trees and rockwork within similar borders, and a flattened hexagonal pierced vase decorated with bats among peachsprays surrounding a a figural roundel and a coiled dragon among clouds above a leaping carp -- 5.in (12.7cm) high, stamped marks.
See Colour Plate 5. (6)