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The inscription to the base may be translated as 'residing in the Mountain of the South and returning at sunset, tasting hundreds
of herbs and curing patients'.

Compare a similar figure from the Qing Court collection, illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings. The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 42. Another from the Blumenfield Collection was
first sold in our London rooms, 2nd December 1997, lot 86, and more recently in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th April 2015, lot 3006.

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