Box with pommel scroll design

Marking: The artist’s mark “made by Yang Mao” incised on the base

[ Klaus F. Naumann , Tokyo, until 1989; sold to Irving]; Florence and Herbert Irving , New York (1989–2011; donated to MMA)

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