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17TH/18TH CENTURY
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A Small Gilt-Bronze Melon-Form Box and Cover
17th/18th Century
Well cast as a lobed melon with a leafy vine trailing across the cover from the short stem at one end, the base of the box concave; together with a small boxwood fan-shaped box and cover, Qianlong, finely carved top and bottom with a foliate dragon above foliate panels on the canted shoulders, both sections with tiny holes pierced through opposite sides for suspension
Both 3in. (7.7cm.) long, one wood stand (2)
17th/18th Century
Well cast as a lobed melon with a leafy vine trailing across the cover from the short stem at one end, the base of the box concave; together with a small boxwood fan-shaped box and cover, Qianlong, finely carved top and bottom with a foliate dragon above foliate panels on the canted shoulders, both sections with tiny holes pierced through opposite sides for suspension
Both 3in. (7.7cm.) long, one wood stand (2)