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

Lot 862 Dα

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

Auction 1044 - overview Cologne
06.12.2014, 10:30 - The Kolodotschko Collection of Netsuke, Japanese Art
Estimate: 500 € - 700 €
Result: 682 € (incl. premium)
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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

Cucumbers were offered to the kappa to keep them appeased.

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Literature

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)