Sold for $8,125

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Lot Description

A Fine Japanese Silver Rabbit-Form Bonbonnière

1924

the cover surmounted by a finial in the shape of a recumbent rabbit with incised eyes and fur, the short walls engraved with a chrysanthemum crest and cranes in flight above pine trees; made as a souvenir of the farewell due to the marriage of Princess Nagako of Kuni no Miya, known as the Empress Kojun, marked Jungin, Shinshiro sei, 純銀新城製.

Length 2 5/8 in., 6.67 cm.

Condition Report

Weight 4 ozt 16 dwt

Overall good condition. Heavily tarnished, particularly the rabbit-form finial, with visible boundaries at the sides of the box. A minute dent to the interior alongside tarnish at the interior seams. The marks are clear.

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