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For references on garden containers, see A.Stein, The world in
miniature: container gardens and dwellings in Far Eastern religious
thought, Stanford, 1990; and J.Rawson, ‘Cosmological systems as
sources of art, ornament and design’, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities, 2000, pp.133-189.

A selection of miniature gardens made of semi-precious stones within
gilded enamelled jardinières included in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Gugong Zhenbao, 2004, pp. 199-
203. A related pair of jardinières containing miniature gardens, dated
to the 18th/19th century, was sold in our London Knightsbridge
rooms, 11 May 2015, lot 154; another pair was sold at Christie’s New
York, 20 March 2011, lot 1628.