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  • Incense box in form of seated figure of Daruma

    Date
    1850-1900
    Period
    Edo period or Meiji era
  • River landscape

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    Late 17th-early 18th century
    Period
    Edo period
  • Rim of large vat

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    1615- 1868
    Period
    Edo period
  • Les cadeaux au shogun : porcelaine precieuse des seigneurs de Nabeshima / henshū Asahi Shinbunsha

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    1997
    C1997
    Edo period, 1600-1868
  • Von Amts wegen prachtvoll : Rangabzeichen chinesischer Beamter in der Qing-Dynastie ; Ausstellungskatalog / Heide Nixdorff (Hg.)

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    2004
    Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
  • Needle case

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    probably AD 1600–1900
  • Arrow point

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    probably AD 1600–1900
  • Houstonia purpurea var. montana (Small) Terrell

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    -- --- 18--
  • Unidentified Man

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    1805-15
  • George Gordon King

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    c. 1816

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