Gorgeous antique early 20th century fine quality mahjong set housed in its hardwood cabinet.
Complete set of 148 tiles ~ 144 for play and 4 spare blanks.
All tiles beautifully carved and coloured, with fine detailing.
Extremely pretty perching crested bird bams and two runs of very attractive flower tiles, beautifully carved with plants and flowers of China in jardinieres on plant stands, and in vases.
Tiles are large, very tactile and measure 32.75mm x 22.5mm x 14mm.
The very generous milky white bone tops make up 50% of the tile
Set
complete with large, long and fine quality scoring sticks, three dice and a tong box with four wind discs.
Front sliding door of cabinet decorated with a central Shou symbol, surrounded by 4 bats.
Cabinet
in good antique condition ~ some of the brass mounts have some small losses and a couple are a little sprung, some old glue repairs to one corner mount and the top of the sliding door.
A couple of the drawers need a little encouragement to slide in and out
A superb, fine quality set with beautiful carving, in excellent antique condition.
Please see photos as part of condition report.
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