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      <image:title>When Green Was Not Corrosion: A Polychrome Balinese Wooden Carving Under Magnification</image:title>
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      <image:title>When Ivory Was Bone: Identifying a Monumental Late Qing Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü</image:title>
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      <image:title>How to Date and Value an Antique Pichwai Painting: A 19th-Century Krishna &amp; Gopis Case Study</image:title>
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      <image:title>Identifying and Dating a Chinese Guanyin – Casting, Patina and Expert Assessment</image:title>
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      <image:title>Dating an Antique Burmese Mandalay Buddha – Wood, Lacquer, Gilding and Glass Under Magnification</image:title>
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      <image:title>A Four-Armed Newar Bodhisattva Under Magnification: What the Casting, Gilding and Lotus Base Reveal</image:title>
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      <image:title>A Seated Tara from Java? What the Halo, Casting and Open Base Reveal</image:title>
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      <image:title>Built in Sections: What the Repairs Reveal About a Large 19th-Century Wooden Buddha</image:title>
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      <image:title>Reassessing a Small Dancing Ganesha Bronze: Casting, Punchwork and Surface Evidence</image:title>
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