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Thank you for posting more photos. I can see the grain of the wood and it is the rare zitan wood. Very nice. Most of the zitan wood was imperial use. During the end of the Qing dynast the wood was use...
Hello This looks to be a rare Korean ansestral. Age should be determined by paper/silk and pigments. Very nice and rare if so. Thank you for sharing.

Do a specific gravity test to determin it's metal. These are faked a lot and made of white brass.
Hello This looks to be 19th century and made of hung mu. Hung mu is a very heavy wood. Often it's confused with zitan or huanghuali. It was nery rare to have inlay as this to hide the more revered w...

I wish you would post more pictures please. This is an fantastic find you have here. I agree this is zitan. I hope you know this may be 18th century and imperial! Congradulation on this find.

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