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Cabinet Veise, biberon shai        Ae Yiian or early Ming), the body wi-
    dening upward, with a                neck, of dark and heavy-textured
     porcelain, susta^                  oration in low relief, picked out in
   amber and turqi                      OS. on a dark lapis-blue ground of
    unctuous texture.

   The design, imposed .<                        consists of a free-flowering stem with
                                                          I coral-like rockery, interspersed
foliage, aitemati-'                                      ion is completed by interlaced
with small aquc;                                        low and turquoise, hanging from
strings of pearls, in v^                                       '.,l.ah,>n« in turquoise.

the shoulder, and thr           ;   ir'4

   The under foot tin              <O
   Yuan dynasty ( 1 260 - I ^'

Height, 12 inches.

5%Diameter,  inches.

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