128 - Snuff box made of wood, ivory, and mother-of-pearl inlays depicting a young Japanese woman, Japan, Meiji-Taisho period (1868–1920)

Snuff box made of wood, ivory, and mother-of-pearl inlays depicting a young Japanese woman, Japan, Meiji-Taisho period (1868–1920) The young woman is depicted standing, wearing a carved wooden kimono decorated with flowers inlaid with mother-of-pearl. She wears an ivory sash tied at the front and holds in her ivory hands a lacquered uchiwa fan inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory. Serving as a stopper and extending into a scoop, the movable head is made of ivory. Her face is smiling, topped by hair styled in a bun and adorned with a kushi featuring a red glass cabochon. Beneath her feet, within an ivory cartouche, is incised the four-character Qianlong mark in zhuanshu script. Height: 9.5 cm; gross weight: 22 g Provenance: Millon-Jutheau auction, Hôtel Drouot, October 3, 1988, lot no. 128 (illustrated). Millon-Jutheau auction, Hôtel Drouot, July 2, 1984, lot no. 178 (illustrated). Similar: Rachelle R. Holden Collection—*Rivers and Mountains Far From the World*, New York, 1994, no. 6 (illustrated on pages 6, 8, 10, 12, 412).