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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
**A PAIR OF PAINTED IVORY FIGURES OF MAIDENS
19TH CENTURY
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**A PAIR OF PAINTED IVORY FIGURES OF MAIDENS
19TH CENTURY
The graceful, slender figures wearing long robes with incised foliate borders tied with a long tasseled cord seen held in the hand of one of the maidens and draped over the basket of flowers carried by the other, their faces finely carved with delicate features and their hair partially drawn up into an elaborate topknot while the remainder falls down the back past the waist, traces of pigment
10 7/8 and 11 in. (27.6 and 27.9 cm.) high (2)
19TH CENTURY
The graceful, slender figures wearing long robes with incised foliate borders tied with a long tasseled cord seen held in the hand of one of the maidens and draped over the basket of flowers carried by the other, their faces finely carved with delicate features and their hair partially drawn up into an elaborate topknot while the remainder falls down the back past the waist, traces of pigment
10 7/8 and 11 in. (27.6 and 27.9 cm.) high (2)