Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery

Live Virtual Auction, 4 - 5 April 2022

Asian Art
  • A Japanese wooden okimono, Meiji period, 1868-1912


Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
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About this Item

A Japanese wooden okimono, Meiji period, 1868-1912
carved as an elderly lady, bare-chested and sitting cross-legged mixing miso in a woven pot, her left hand resting on her knee, her right holding a pestle, 4cm high; and another, carved as an elderly lady seated on a hay bale, smoking a pipe, the trailing whisps visible to one cheek and to her tunic, the reverse carved with a spray of flowers, 5,5cm high
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Provenance

Property of an Oriental Collector.



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