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Lot Essay
This form was likely used as a trinket box, rather than on the dining room table. For a nearly identical pair in the Sowell Collection, see M. Cohen and W. Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Surrey, 2008, p. 272, no. 19.4. Also see W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, pp. 172-3, no. 80 for a brown colored pair in The Peabody Museum of Salem.