A Japanese wooden okimono, Meiji period, 1868-1912
Asian Art
LOT 106
A Japanese wooden okimono, Meiji period, 1868-1912
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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