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per. Note two women playing the flute.
Very rare to depict females.
Jaffe: So why surround yourself
with all this? What are you trying to
evoke?
Sam: Asian art is reminiscent of
our life of travel. It is our signature
from the Orient. Everything in this
house has memories and meaning.
Jaffe: What’s next? Why not visit
Cuba? Is that a Sephardic name?
Marilyn: No, it’s actually Kuberski
from Lomza, Poland! ■
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Photos by Duane Stork
A: Marilyn and Sam Eckstein designed this pearl-inlaid lacquer screen, which was custom-made in Vietnam. The other side features oxen and farmworkers.
B: Sam Eckstein serves wife Marilyn with the tea set he brought out of China as Mao’s forces advanced in 1948.
C: Elaine Pollock created this collage of the Cuba family journey.
D, I: Importing these ivory pieces would be illegal today.
E: Things get a little racy on this Italian Capodimonte lamp.
F: These puppets once entertained the royal family of Burma (now Myanmar).
G: The detail of the picture within the picture on this hand-painted Turkish piece indicates the use of a brush as fine as a human hair.
H: This hand-made chess set comes from Cochin (or Kochi), India, the birthplace of chess.
J: The Ecksteins’ collection is rich in rare jade and ivory pieces.
K: The depiction of “8 Immortals Crossing the Sea” t