Duke's Asian Art Auction 2012

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Lot 100

100 A JAPANESE IVORY AND SHIBAYAMA TANKARD decorated with ornamental pheasants perched on a blossoming tree, quail, birds in flight and a mass of blossoming plants, with a conforming tusk handle, and an inset glass base, the silver mounts Birmingham 1894, the ivory Meiji, 24½cm high

99 A JAPANESE IVORY AND SHIBAYAMA OKIMONO carved to imitate a bird nesting with young in the trunk of a gnarled tree, the exterior with a snake, a snail, blossoming plants and a toad on a lily pad, the carved hardwood base with four feet carved as shells, Meiji, 34½cm high £500-£1,000

Lot 99

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