Japan. Edo period. 19th c. Ivory with finely engraved and dark accentuated details. Blind thief after bathing, only dressed in a loincloth (fundoshi), looking out from behind a folding screen with his loot. Height 2.5cm, width 4.9cm. Signed: Toshinaga, cf. MCI p. 932. Condition A/B.
Provenance: -Collection H. Seymour Trower, ill. Joly, H.: Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trowe Collection, 1975, no. 854, panel XI. -Colelction Karl M. Schwarz, ill. Netsuke Subjects Addendum, 2001, no. A 163.
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