Snuff box made of wood, ivory, and mother-of-pearl inlays depicting a young Japanese woman, Japan, Meiji-Taisho period (1868–1920)

Snuff box made of wood, ivory, and mother-of-pearl inlays depicting a young Japanese woman, Japan, Meiji-Taisho period (1868–1920) The young woman is depicted standing, wearing a carved wooden kimono decorated with flowers inlaid with mother-of-pearl. She wears an ivory sash tied at the front and holds in her ivory hands a lacquered uchiwa fan inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory. Serving as a stopper and extending into a scoop, the movable head is made of ivory. Her face is smiling, topped b

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Asian art

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Paris