DRAGON - - DEEPLY CARVED ANTIQUE OJIME BEAD

DRAGON - -

DEEPLY CARVED ANTIQUE OJIME BEAD ,

early MEIJI PERIOD (1867-1912) Japan

Diameter : 18 mm

Antique Ivory, very well-carved in detail,
deeply undercut,
lotus-carved around the center metal tube

(Similar but not identical examples are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
# 30094 .......................................................................................................................................................SOLD