Snuff Bottle in Porphyry or Colored Glass with Coral and Jade or Glass Stopper

China

Qing period (1644-1911)

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One of eight unmounted screen panel paintings with scenes of filial piety. Originally intended to be mounted as a folding screen.
From the Fifty-Three Stations of Tokaido (55 prints in the series with 1st being in Tokyo, last in Kyoto)
Sleeping Girls (.14, recto); Westside Resting Place (.15, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page
An unusual hexagonal shaped bottle in underglaze copper red