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exquisitely carved in the form of a deep musk mallow bloom, one side decorated in openwork with a chilong clambering on the interior of the rim and forming the handle of the cup, the mythical beast rendered with a slender sinuous body terminating in an elongated curling tail extending across the vessel, all supported on a base rendered as the curling stem bearing the floral bloom and enveloping the vessel with attendant leaves and a floral bud, incised in clerical script on one side with a poetic inscription warning against inebriation and dated to the summer of the renwu year of the Wanli period (in accordance with 1582), the surface with an attractive and smooth patina, wood stand