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Happy Chinese New Year of the Monkey

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« on: February 08, 2016, 05:09:49 am »
Dear Tom,
very interesting! Are there some deer too on your bottle? I am asking so because the motif of monkey associated to deer and bees is a well known one, described in Terese Bartholomew book. Instead, I have never found a description of the Monkey associated to deers and a spider net motif. This is very rare, I have seen it very seldom, actually only two times I think, which are my snuff bottle and an hat stand that I have in my collection. Your bottle is very unusual, since it is combining both motifs.
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Giovanni
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