Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 4 - 5 April 2022
Asian Art
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 (2)
Provenance
Property of an Oriental Collector.
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