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A wood bottle

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« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2012, 08:57:30 am »

George,

As mentioned in the above post, it is a dense and close-grained wood of light color, which I believe it to be boxwood. I have seen other Chinese carvings of similar looking wood which were described as boxwood. But I have not asked a wood expert to try and identify it.

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