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Question about cinnabar boxes and other cinnabar items

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: August 04, 2017, 06:44:01 am »

Dear Frank,

     While visiting fellow snuff bottle collectors in La Spezia one time, Giovanni and I accompanied them to the tail end of an antique fair, and I found a really beautiful dish for serving sweets during the formal tea ceremony, cinnabar on porcelain, from the Taisho period (ca.1910-1935, in effect Japanese Art Deco). And quite reasonable - I believe it was about 40-60 Euros. And this was after I'd found a Meiji Ivory page turner with lacquer decoration on one side and embellished decoration on the reverse, both of birds and flowering or fruiting vines, for 60-80 Euros, at an antique market near Parma - Giovanni was able to get me moving earlier than we needed in order to get us to La Spezia for our lunch, so that we were able to stop and browse. And we were able to visit a beautiful Church there as well, decorated in the Baroque style, I believe.

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Shabbat Shalom,
Joey
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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