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Lot 396
A wood tonkotsu 19th century
15 May 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£550 - £600
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Find your local specialistA wood tonkotsu
19th century
Of wide form, carved in relief with two wrestlers in combat, the reverse similarly carved with a sennin seated on a rock beneath an overhanging branch, the wood somewhat worn and bearing a good patina, signed Saku kojin Banzan Masaaki. 8.5cm (3 3/8in).
Of wide form, carved in relief with two wrestlers in combat, the reverse similarly carved with a sennin seated on a rock beneath an overhanging branch, the wood somewhat worn and bearing a good patina, signed Saku kojin Banzan Masaaki. 8.5cm (3 3/8in).
Footnotes
相撲に仙人図木彫とんこつ 銘「作工人番山正明」 19世紀
Provenance: purchased from Denis Szeszler, New York, 1990.
Wrangham collection, no.1978.
























