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View full screenInro with four compartments, of ivory decorated with caparisoned elephant and Chinese children (karako) in mother-of-pearl, malachite and steatite, suspended from a kagamibuta netsuke of ivory set with glass and emamel, and held by a lacquer ojime encrusted with mother-of-pearl and steatite: Japan, by Shibayama Kazuyuki, late 19th century
A.1958.199
Shibayama Kazuyuki
Japan, East Asia
1850 - 1870
Wood, Lacquer, Mother of pearl, Malachite, Steatite, Ivory, Glass, Enamel, Lacquer, Mother of pearl, Steatite
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