A Canton ivory card case

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A Canton ivory card case
carved with figures and flowers within cartouche shaped panels and borders -- 4½in. (11.4cm) high; a gold lacquer four case inro decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with cranes beside water and rockwork beneath blossoming branches, nashiji interiors -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm) high; a famille verte porcelain snuff bottle of baluster shape decorated with grasshoppers -- 2in. (5.1cm) high, pierced bronze stopper; a brown lacquer noh mask with open mouthed expression -- 4in. (10.2cm) high; and a stag antler netsuke carved with sea shells -- 2in. (5.1cm) wide. (5)

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