Ivory

This is all pre ban Ivory legal to own but difficult to sell with no import certificate, not that I’d want to sell so no biggie. and some agara wood oil and incense… sometimes I wish pictures had smel, but most of the time I’m glad they don’t, lol.

 

nice frame....& I like the gals !!

 

Aww cute!!

I have a set of four ivory monkeys. See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, and do no evil.

Never seen the three/four monkeys ever depicted as something other than monkeys before!!

 

I read the monkeys likely originated in China but first appeared in Japan in the 1700s and I had to look that up so I don’t know much about them. But the article did say it’s a monkey thing so I have no idea why this carver went off the rails?

Maybe he carved it as a lesson for his wife…

 

3 more, but it was good luck tonight. During my last move the girl on the horse lost her head, I thought it was thrown away in haste with the papers while unpacking 5 years ago but it was inside the little round box. The little round box is embellished with one of my baby teeth crushed replacing a little piece of mother of pearl, my mom did that to my tooth, lol.

 

I guess she is a perfume bottle.