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Chinese figure with bird

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Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts and soft-paste porcelain flowers
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection 1982
Title: Chinese figure with bird
Description:
Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts and soft-paste porcelain flowers.

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