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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 275241, member: 2844"]It is a Chinese serpentine model of a lute-like instrument like a pipa or a liuqin. </p><p>The dragon head is sometimes seen on string instruments from the Guangdong area, but probably in other regions as well. The other animals could be a reference to a song.</p><p>It is not very old, missing the central disc and parts of two keys, some glue where the missing parts used to be, but the shape and scroll decoration are attractive. </p><p>And it features a dragon, of course.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 275241, member: 2844"]It is a Chinese serpentine model of a lute-like instrument like a pipa or a liuqin. The dragon head is sometimes seen on string instruments from the Guangdong area, but probably in other regions as well. The other animals could be a reference to a song. It is not very old, missing the central disc and parts of two keys, some glue where the missing parts used to be, but the shape and scroll decoration are attractive. And it features a dragon, of course.:happy:[/QUOTE]
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