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Coral creations

Related Images

  • Fairy and immortal boy 1900s - Metropolitan Museum of Art - [50.145.156](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/43373)
  • Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird, 1736–95 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - [21.175.282a](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41531)

Like the Kui Xing sculpture in which the natural form defines the outline of the sculpted figure, other Qing dynasty collectibles made from coral are equally formed by nature and human artifice.