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128
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Snuff box made of wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl inlay depi…
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128
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Snuff box made of wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl inlay depi…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Snuff box made of wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl inlay depicting a young Japanese woman, Japan, Meiji–Taisho period (1868–1920)
The young woman is depicted standing, dressed in a carved wooden kimono decorated with flowers inlaid with mother-of-pearl. She wears an ivory sash tied at the front and holds in her ivory hands a lacquered uchiwa fan inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory. Serving as a stopper and extending into a scoop, the movable head is made of ivory. The face is smiling, surmounted by hair styled in a bun and adorned with a kushi featuring a red glass cabochon. Beneath the feet, within an ivory cartouche, is incised the four-character Qianlong mark in zhuanshu script.
Height: 9.5 cm; gross weight: 22 g
Provenance:
Millon-Jutheau auction, Hôtel Drouot, 3 October 1988, lot no. 128 (illustrated).
Millon-Jutheau auction, Hôtel Drouot, 2 July 1984, lot no. 178 (illustrated).
Similar:
Rachelle R. Holden Collection – *Rivers and Mountains Far From the World*, New York, 1994, no. 6 (illustrated on pages 6, 8, 10, 12, 412).
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