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Since piece in museum excavated 1968, would not be copied Qianlong reign.
What you call oxidation may simply be clay imperfection.
Imperfections in clay can exist any time. Person wealthy enough to commission copy 200 years ago would require best quality porcelain. Such a piece would not be imperial or scholarly taste then.
Doubt your piece 'carved'. More likely molded, perhaps with some hand retouching to conceal mold marks, refine details. If cast from plaster mold from museum piece, would be a little smaller since plaster shrink, clay shrink a little in drying and firing.
Judging by odd combination motifs and configuration of pot would wonder if piece excavated 1968 could have been buried 1966, or significantly reconstructed. Never have been lion in China. Naturalistic motif with nursing cub strange.
Good luck,
Cal
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