Circular ivory Butsudan (portable altar), Japan, Meiji period, depicting Kannon inside, behind a incense burner, accompanied by two disciples, possibly Sudhana and Longnü, one holding a vase, the other a flower and lotus leaf, on a stepped pedestal, decorated with phoenix and dragon in the clouds, and turtles among the waves, the Butsudan opening with two leaves, each decorated on the inside with a deity, closing with a metal clasp in the form of a Fô dog, the outside of the Butsudan decorated with multiple figures engaged in various activities in a landscape, surmounted by clouds where dragons and deities fly, signed '''(hakukumo saku) under the base, h. 24 cm (damaged, missing and restored)