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Huge Ivory Column Bottle - intricately carved

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« on: January 18, 2017, 04:34:21 am »

Hi Cathy,

I like it, pretty well carved. Is it a procession of people moving up around the bottle carrying gifts ?

It was a carved ivory card case that got me interested in Chinese items, I couldn't believe the amount of work that had gone into it. They had some value then but I've noticed prices climbing of late. I have a few I've collected in ivory, wood, tortoiseshell, shell inlays etc. Also some Japanese carved ivory items, netsuke, okimono and pots.

It's seems the answer of whether ivory snuff bottles were made in China or Japan is an open debate as the Japanese carved items that would go to China in a Chinese style to suit that market. The highly detailed work on the card cases I've never seen suggested as Japanese. While the Japanese were highly skilled at carving ivory their best okimono etc have a different feel to the work on the card cases. By that I mean there is a difference between items carved by the Chinese for themselves and by the Japanese for themselves but either were skilled enough to copy the work of the other if needed.

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