A POLYCHROME RELIEF-CARVED IVORY BOTTLE

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A POLYCHROME RELIEF-CARVED IVORY BOTTLE
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY JAPANESE

Of rounded shape, carved in a continuous scene around the body with numerous playful boys on a terrace under pine, between lappets at the foot and shoulder, the separately cut neck with a cell pattern--
2 3/8in. (6cm.) high, stopper
Provenance
Clarence C. Hanson Collection
Literature
Bob C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, Tokyo, 1976, p. 202, pl. 763

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