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A small Japanese boxwood study of a monkey Late 19th/early 20th Century
4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT
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Find your local specialistA small Japanese boxwood study of a monkey
Late 19th/early 20th Century
Carved seated, his right arm scratching his back, his left hand holds a large fungus, 7.5cm high, signed, together with a wood study of a cricket on a vegetable, the small insect sitting to one end of the finely carved tapering vegetable, possibly a corn, 16.5cm long, and a carved figure of Hotei, the bald, rotund figure with his sack over his left shoulder, 19cm high. (3)
Carved seated, his right arm scratching his back, his left hand holds a large fungus, 7.5cm high, signed, together with a wood study of a cricket on a vegetable, the small insect sitting to one end of the finely carved tapering vegetable, possibly a corn, 16.5cm long, and a carved figure of Hotei, the bald, rotund figure with his sack over his left shoulder, 19cm high. (3)
















