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Style: Taisho
Japanese Cinnabar Scholars Cabinet, Early Taisho Period (1912-1926)
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The top & sides decorated with cartouche shaped panels depicting fauna & flora, the front showing a pair of panelled doors decorated with flying cranes & clouds, the obverse decorate...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Taisho Scholar's Objects
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Japanese Old Scholar's Stone / Odd Shaped Appreciation Stone / Suiseki
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a stone mined in Japan.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Scholar's Objects
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Stone
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