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« on: August 27, 2017, 12:27:57 pm »
Dear Toni-Lee,

      Thank you.
      By the way, did you know that the design of the dragon wrapped around the cylindrical bottle is meant to reproduce  specially woven narrow dragon motif carpets that were designed to be wrapped around the pillars of temples and palaces in China during certain Holy Day periods?

     And some bottles have on the base a series of concentric rings, to symbolize the pillar. See # 3, 4, 6, 9, 16, and 17, in "Dragon", my B & W catalogue.
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Joey
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