An Edo/Tokyo school Shibayama ivory manjû of a kappa in a rain shower, by Sôichi. Second half 19th century - image-1

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An Edo/Tokyo school Shibayama ivory manjû of a kappa in a rain shower, by Sôichi. Second half 19th century

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06.12.2014, 10:30 - Netsuke aus der Slg. Kolodotschko II, Japanische Kunst
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An Edo/Tokyo school Shibayama ivory manjû of a kappa in a rain shower, by Sôichi. Second half 19th century

Sheltering underneath a tattered umbrella with a sake bottle in his hand, by a rivulet in which swims a cucumber. Inlays of soft metal, malachite, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell and green stone. Signed on the reverse Sôichi on a mother-of-pearl tablet and a red seal with a kaô.
Diameter 4.4 cm

Literaturhinweise

Compare an almost identical manjû in the Garrett Collection (Neil K. Davey and Susan G. Tripp, The Garrett Collection of Japanese Art, Lacquer, Inro and Netsuke. London 1993, p. 221, no. 231)