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Tian Bao repeats the same performance in this 3-piece tea set with the addition of these extraordinary panels
that have various auspicious animals depicted against a finely planished ground. The twisted bamboo handles
on each piece have an elegance that also set them apart and the whole is completed by the addition of an
unusual [for Chinese silver] foliate frieze border.
One can tell from all of these examples that Tian Bao, with all its adherence to the traditional, had an underlying
revolutionary trait that rose to the surface, but in the right quantity and with the best of intentions.