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1、ASixteenth-CenturyLacqueredChineseBoxAuthor(s):JamesC.Y.WattSource:MetropolitanMuseumJournal,Vol.37(2002),pp.77-82Publishedby:TheUniversityofChicagoPressonbehalfofTheMetropolitanMuseumofArtStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1513075.Accessed:24/04/20
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8、orationingold.'itsbranches.ThefigurehascurlyhairandpossiblyaEachshortsidehasabrasshandle.beard,whichispartlyhiddenbythemetalplateoftheThemostinterestingofthedecorations,inaChi-handle.He(orshe)isnaked,butdraperycoversthenesecontext,areap