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Vase (part a) with wooden stand (part b). A four-sided beaker-shaped red lacquered vase (part b) on metal and trimmed with brass at rim and foot. Side panels decorated with figures in landscapes. Each side panel has three parts: an upper section, a middle section, and a lower section. Turning the vase counter-clock-wise the description is as follows. One side panel has an upper section depicting two people looking at another separated from them by a cross-sectioned terrace with a large building on the left and a smaller building in the above background, a middle section depicting two people with one holding a flute-like instrument with a large building on the left and a smaller building in the above background's rocky mountainous terrain, and a lower section depicting two people talking to each other surrounded by a terrace. The next side panel has an upper section depicting two people at either sides of the person in between them with another person in the lower right corner looking across at them and a building at each of the top corners, a middle section depicting two people facing each other with one dancing and a building to the right, and a lower section depicting one person sitting under a tree on the left and another person sitting on a rock on the right. Another side panel has an upper section depicting two people looking at another separated from them by a cross-sectioned terrace with a large building on the left and a smaller building in the above background, a middle section depicting two people with one looking at the other while raising his left arm and the other person holding a long object in his right arm with a building at each of the top corners, and a lower section depicting two small people looking at their superior with one small person farther to the right under a tree. The last side panel has an upper section depicting two people at either sides of the person in between them with another person in the lower right corner looking across at them and a building at each of the top corners, a middle section depicting three people in triangular formation with a building on the right, and a lower section depicting a kneeling person being approached by someone on the right with a building on the left.

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