6 Nov 2012
14:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Fine Japanese Art Afternoon Session
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Fine Japanese Art Afternoon Session
Back to auction 20023
A Tokyo School ivory group of an old man and child
Meiji Period
The former standing barefoot and affectionately lifting his grandson with one hand, as he holds the leash of a tortoise crawling over his right knee, a tonkotsu, pipe within a case, and netsuke in the form of a Daruma doll suspended from the old man's belt at the front, fixed to an irregular-shaped base simulating a river bank, signed with an indecipherable tensho seal.
39cm (15 3/8in) high.
The former standing barefoot and affectionately lifting his grandson with one hand, as he holds the leash of a tortoise crawling over his right knee, a tonkotsu, pipe within a case, and netsuke in the form of a Daruma doll suspended from the old man's belt at the front, fixed to an irregular-shaped base simulating a river bank, signed with an indecipherable tensho seal.
39cm (15 3/8in) high.
Sold for
£9,375
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 象牙彫置物 老人と孫 作者不詳 明治時代
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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