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Lot 489
Sale 1015 - Strong Diversions: Property from a Lifetime of Play
Mar 28, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$750 -
950
Price Realized
$2,250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two Japanese Tobacco Boxes, Tonkotsu
19TH CENTURY
comprising a black lacquer example, decorated with three birds in flight underneath the moon, together with a blue glass ojime and an embellished wood netsuke in the shape of a covered box, signed Mitani, 三谷, on a mother-of-pearl inlaid panel; a hardwood example in the shape of two confronting dragons bearing a pearl of wisdom, signed, together with a reticulated wood lotus netsuke.
Length of larger 2 3/4 in., 7 cm.
Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund






