A late 19th/early 20th Century "Mah-Jongg" Set (the sparrows), ivory markers and tiles, the tiles bamboo backed, the panelled front lifting to reveal five full width drawers with the pieces within, complete with various score cards and original rules and guide to the game of mah-jongg, the whole housed within a ebonised Chinese hardwood and mother of pearl inlaid custom case (some mother of pearl now lacking), complete with four heavy Chinese hardwood tablet stands finely carved with bamboo etc., the case 23.5cm wide CONDITION REPORT: Image of tile stands. Five Trays. Damage to side and back, some mother of pearl missing. We believe ivory as grain in pieces. Please view to satisfy yourself before bidding.
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In the manner of CLAUDE LEFEBVRE (1632 - 1675), Madame De Rabutini-Chantal, an ornately carved gilded framed Oil on Panel shoulder length portrait study, she with curls, pearl earrings, necklace and pearl adorned red and grey silk gown, (original hand written in ink paper label verso), 34cm x 29cm CONDITION REPORT: Light craquelere on surface. Minor restorations to frame. Otherwise good.
**A JAPANESE LONG SPEAR (OMI NO YARI), AND THREE FURTHER SPEARS (YARI) the first with long double-edged blade of triangular section tapering to a sharp point, cut with a single fuller, five-sided shank, signed long tang, on a wooden haft decorated in black lacquer with a banded pattern, fitted with copper ferrule, and iron shoe; the second with short steel head, on its haft (losses); the third decorated with mother-of-pearl at the top (head missing)the first 71 cm; 28 in head(3)ProvenanceThe first: Edward E. Shedd, Allston, MassachusettsThe second: Samuel Spanierman, New York, 6th December 1934 The third: Louis Bachereau, Paris, 3rd September 1933JWHA Inv. Nos. 2168.a, 2227, 63ExhibitedThe first: Worcester Art Museum, 5th April-22nd June 2003, "Samurai Spirit"The tang of the first is signed Sagami (no) kami Masatsune nyudo, implying that it is made by the first Owari Masatsune, originally of Mino, active 1535-1619.
**A JAPANESE HELMET (KABUTO), EDO PERIOD, EARLY 17TH CENTURYwith four piece russet iron skull rising to a very tall rounded point, fitted with mabizashi lacquered black on the outer face and decorated with three fujii-mitsubishi-monin mother-of-pearl, shikoro of five iron lames, lacquered black on the outside and gilt on the inside, and fukigaeshi decorated with gilt mon en suite with the mabizashi (the lacquer with losses throughout)50 cm; 19 3/4 in highProvenanceKano Oshima, New York, 15th October 1932, part of lot 168JWHA Inv. No. 1752

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