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LOT 2238
Japanese Ceramic Lidded Box
20TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (367 grams, 11.4 cm).
Hollow-formed two-part trinket dish formed as a stylised mal face with blue-glazed hair and eyebrows, red-brown lips and chrysanthemum diadem; the exaggerated lentoid section nose forming the lid's handle; modelled as the king of Tengeu. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
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