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A VERY RARE FINELY INLAID HUANGHUALI 'HUNTING' BOX AND COVER Wanli Bingzi cyclical year silver-wire inscription, corresponding to 1576, 17th/18th century The rectangular box with rounded corners, superbly embellished on the cover's top with mother-of-pearl, coral, lapis lazuli, soapstone and malachite, with a hunting party of four mounted bowmen riders including a falconer, and a soldier holding a banner beside a hound, loosing arrows at geese and a four-legged animal, amidst rockwork with bamboo and lingzhi-fungus below a sunny cloud-strewn sky, the rims finely inlaid with silver-wire classic scroll, the interior cover with a nine-character silver-wire inlaid inscription, with a shallow recessed base. 34.3cm (13 1/2in) long. (2).

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Silver