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A lacquered and woven bamboo Gaduganan betel box with no trays and decorated with the yun (incised) technique. The colours are red, black and yellow. The cover is domed and displays an elaborate and finely drawn design of Chinese cloud collars in black and edged with yellow forming clover-leaf shapes which frame small figures of dancers and deer. The side frieze is the same and is set between bands of grooved red lacquer inset with very narrow hoops of bare bamboo. The side of the base has a frieze of four-footed animals. The bottom has a Chinese cloud collar design and tiny figures of deer.
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