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Description IMPORTANT NETSUKE OF CH?KAR? SENNIN WITH GOURD. Japan. Late 18th/early 19th c. Ivory with shiny, amber yellow patina. The figure might be stained a bit. Standing, dressed in a wide robe with leaf collar and apron. Knotted to his belt he has a gourd, to which he points with his left hand. He has raised his right hand and holds a short staff behind his neck. This staff once belonged to a fly whisk, from which probably a part of the hair has broken off. Here was later very skilfully carved over with a leaf, no patina is found here either. H.9.7cm. Sign.: Signed on the back: Nobukatsu. Condition B. Provenance: -German private collection. -Acquired at Klefisch auction 28, lot 728. -Sotheby's "Fine Netsuke Including Property from the Collection of Alan R. Liss" (publisher of the MCI), 2.9.1993, lot 113.
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Asian Art - Netsuke, Okimono, Sagemono, Inro 18th/19th century Netsuke Crafts Japan
Dimensions H.9,7
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