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158 - A Chinese Chicken Wood (jichimu) Scholar’s Document Box, late Qing Dynasty, of rectangular form, the hinged top inlaid with soapstone depicting a sage reclining under a pine 33cm wide
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A Chinese Chicken Wood (jichimu) Scholar’s Document Box, late Qing Dynasty, of rectangular form, the hinged top inlaid with soapstone depicting a sage reclining under a pine 33cm wide A scrap of a handwritten label remains, the rest of which, when purchased 40 years ago, stated that a British army officer seized it ‘from the palace of Lee Hungchang, Tientsin 1900’ (Qing statesman Li Hongzhang, Tianjin) en route to relieve the Boxer siege, 1900
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