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Pair of lifelike Japanese mother of pearl fantail doves, ca. 1880.

This life-size pair of fantailed doves are created by placing intricately carved individual mother of pearl feathers onto a carved wooden base, they stand on sturdy bronze legs.

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Late 19th Century Japanese bronze Nitsuro Hikime (lost wax technique) Okimono group depicting Carp swimming in the shallows.

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Carved Wooden Heraldic Lion, late 18th / early 19th century.

Probably Continental (French or Italian). Possibly from a coat of arms.

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A Japanese Meiji-era (1868-1912) bronze vase in the form of a Koi Carp.