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Lot 775
Antique Chinese Ivory Carving
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Partial tusk carved to depict a man with coins and a toad beneath a pine tree, stained a warm honey color, with hardwood base.

Carving 8.25 in.; HOA 9.5 in.

From the Estate of Captain Benjamin Soule Gantz and Ethyle Offutt Gantz, Shanghai, China and Washington, D.C.

Purchased in Shanghai in the 1920s.

$300 - 500