AN IVORY OKIMONO OF A BASKET SELLER, MEIJI PERIOD

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA

standing in his waraji, turned to the side and carrying a bamboo pole over his right shoulder, suspended at the front and back with numerous baskets, drums and other wares hanging from ropes, and others held in his lowered left hand, the details picked out in red and black, the base with a rectangular plaque signed Kogan, wood stand

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22CM

• Lot Sold $1,800 (Hammer Price)
• $2,196 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Condition Report

Some baskets loose and some joins with traces of glue. The join around the base of the basket below his left hand and the large basket at his back lifting in parts. the pouch originally pinned to the small basket in his left hand detached and showing traces of glue. The helmet missing one cabochon applique. An aperture just below the helmet in the long basket hanging from his right hand, possibly for something now missing. The bamboo pole is in three joined sections.