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JAPAN, 1800-1900
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**A LAC BURGAUTÉ SNUFF BOTTLE
JAPAN, 1800-1900
Of flattened, high-shouldered, slightly tapering form, either side with a scene of a group of sages conversing beneath bamboo rendered in mother-of-pearl of varying tone, the shoulders wreathed with swirling clouds, matching stopper
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high
JAPAN, 1800-1900
Of flattened, high-shouldered, slightly tapering form, either side with a scene of a group of sages conversing beneath bamboo rendered in mother-of-pearl of varying tone, the shoulders wreathed with swirling clouds, matching stopper
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Bob. C. Stevens Collection; Sotheby's, Honolulu, 7 November 1981, lot 195.
Bob. C. Stevens Collection; Sotheby's, Honolulu, 7 November 1981, lot 195.
Literature
B. C. Stevens, The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles, New York and Tokyo, 1980, no. 800.
Arts of Asia, July-August 1973.
Arts of Asia, July-August 1973.
Exhibited
Mikimoto, Catalogue, col. pl. no. 338.
Special notice
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