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Display Cabinet with Engraved Bird Designs

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Flower Stands

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Flower stands (huaji), also called huajia (flower shelves) or huatai (flower plat?form), did not...

Gold-embedded color lacquer table with flower patterns

Gold-embedded color lacquer table with flower patterns
Its whole body is painted with reddish yellow lacquer and decorated with gold-embedded colored...

Official's Hat Armchair with Four Protruding Ends

Official's Hat Armchair with Four Protruding Ends

Hanghuali wood. Ming Dynasty.

Height 119.5 cm. Seat 58.5*47cm.

Display Cabinet ("Duo Bao Ge" in Chinese) was often used to exhibit and store antiques of the family, It is endowed with the following two characteristics: one is its surface configuration, decorated with a bamboo design, while the other is that the whole shelf is sculpted with extremely exquisite arts and crafts designs. Multiple decorations such as the patterns of birds, phoenixes, bats, squirrels and grapes mix well with the auspicious theme: "Carps jumping over the dragon gate". The subjects depicted are both rich and colorful.
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