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Bid 295.00
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12/12 18:04 EST

Large Octagonal Qing Wedding Basket
December 2012 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This traditional Chinese wedding basket, made of light-weight wood, has 25 different black and gold vignettes of Qing Dynasty life painted on its octagonal trays and lid. The tall black bent willow handle is wrapped in bamboo strips woven into a black-accented pattern. The base of the basket and the scene on the lid are framed with key patterns, another element typical of the profuse symbolic adornment often found on late Qing items, especially those associated with marriage...
Bid 280.00
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04/03 06:35 EDT