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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
12-Oct-2004
Lot No.
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Description:
An impressive Japanese shibayama ivory tusk vase on stand Meiji period, signed finely inlaid to each side in mother-of-pearl, bamboo, coral and hard stone with a scene of butterflies and a vase on an ornately carved table set with flowering chrysanthemum, prunus and pendant wisteria, the reverse with a scene of swallows in a flowering landscape with a stream, raised on a carved wooden base, together with a pierced and carved foliate and floriate decorated stand, the vase. Height 30 cm, the stand. Height 34 cm
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Oriental: Ivory