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Snuff box made of ivory, stained black and red, decorated wi…
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138
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Snuff box made of ivory, stained black and red, decorated wi…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Snuff box made of ivory, stained black and red, decorated with children and a banana tree, Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Shield-shaped, with a continuous decoration on a black-stained background depicting children playing in a garden near a large banana tree taking root in a pierced rock. The foot, shoulder, neck and stopper, all in one piece, are decorated with geometric friezes stained black and red. An apocryphal Qianlong mark consisting of four characters in zhuanshu script on the base.
Total height: 5.8 cm; weight: 54 g
Provenance:
Millon-Jutheau auction, Hôtel Drouot, 2 and 3 February 1983, lot no. 203.
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