Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery

Live Virtual Auction, 19 - 21 September 2022

Asian Art
About the Session

including Property of an Oriental Collector and The Property of the Estate Late Tiemen Groen


  • A Japanese ivory okimono of a fish pedlar, Meiji period, 1868-1912


Lot Estimate
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000

About this Item

A Japanese ivory okimono of a fish pedlar, Meiji period, 1868-1912
the kneeling figure holding a knife in his right hand and securing a fish to his chopping board with his left hand, a basket of fish to his left and a small crouching boy to his right gesturing towards a crab, thumb missing and knife repaired, signed in a red-lacquer reserve, 9,5cm high

*This lot is not suitable for export

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 16 October 2017, lot 192.



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