Sale 1633
New York
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7 - 8 March 2006
Price realised
USD 600
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A JAPANESE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A PRIEST, EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY, carved seated and robed with hands in prayer, on a stepped plinth; together with a small rectangular lacquered covered box decorated with a bird on prunus branches 7in.(18cm.) high; 6¾in. (17cm.) wide (3)
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