A bronze figure of Kakinomoto Hitomaru. Around 1900 - image-1

Lot 1185a Dα

A bronze figure of Kakinomoto Hitomaru. Around 1900

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
05.12.2015, 11:00 - Asian Art III - Japanese Art incl. The Netsuke Collection of Kolodotschko IV
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
Result: 3.224 € (incl. premium)

A bronze figure of Kakinomoto Hitomaru. Around 1900

A bronze figure of Kakinomoto Hitomaru seated cross-legged and wearing robes in the Heian style, in his left hand a mirror with an engraved poem. Signed Keiun. Wooden base (not belonging). Around 1900.
Height 35.8 cm

Provenance

Private collection of a German railroad engineer, who lived in China before 1914, and thence by descent