Pair of Snuff Bottles and Two Japanese Netsuke.
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Pair of Chinese Famille Rose 'Erotic' Snuff Bottles and Two Japanese Netsuke. Each porcelain bottle enameled with a couple engaging in an amorous act on either side, inscribed to the recessed base with a six-character Guanxu mark in red, with a hardstone stopper; a boxwood netsuke of a woman pleasing herself; and a 19th-century wood netsuke of a man holding a clam shell, the lower part of which is removable to reveal male and female body parts, the underside with two incised characters reading Gyokusen. {Height of each: 2 1/2 inches (6.3 cm)}. Provenance: Property from the Richard I. Stone Estate.
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Pair of Snuff Bottles and Two Japanese Netsuke.
Estimate $300 - $500
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