An ivory figural okimono
late Meiji period

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, QUEENSLAND

of a man on a rocky ledge carrying a basket on his head filled with gourds, the fruiting vine trailing down to a small boy standing on a lower ledge; together with a pair of small Shibayama brushpots, each decorated in lacquer and mother of pearl with butterflies among grasses on a river bank, wood stands

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30.7 cm high; and 7.5 cm high

• Lot Sold $1,400 (Hammer Price)
• $1,708 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Condition Report

Brushpots - some wear to gilt and sepia decoratoin on the grasses and around the lower rim, one with a small chip to the lower rim and two vertical cracks approx 3cm. Man with gourds - a stem of a gourd in the basket partly missing and traces of glue around a leaf, part of the trailing vine stem missing to the left of his chin, the boy's right leg repaired, some vertical cracks in ivory