Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 102 420
About this Item
A large Japanese gold-lacquer and ivory figural okimono of a woodsman, Meiji period, 1868-1912
the standing figure holding a later staff in his right hand, his jacket and pantaloons decorated with gold lacquer and coloured mons in hiramaki-e, takamakie and aogai, a large frame supporting bundles of tied brushwood and kindling strapped to his back, his left hip with a tobacco pouch and netsuke, wearing waraji sandles, tobacco pouch signed, his left sleeve signed Koho in gold lacquer, signed Teimin in the rectangular red lacquer reserve, on a fixed carved wooden base, 42cm high including stand
*This lot is not suitable for export
Provenance
The Andrew Newall Collection.
Literature
cf. Laura Bordignon (2010) The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono, Dr A. M. Kanter’s Collection, Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, pages 144 & 145, where an example by the same maker is illustrated in colour
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