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Lot 596 D‡α

An ivory manjû. Mid-19th century

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 350 € - 400 €
Result: 1.375 € (incl. premium)
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An ivory manjû. Mid-19th century

With a central plug, carved in sunken relief and finely engraved with a farmer lacing up a large sack. Dark-stained details. A tokkuri and a sake cup in fine engraving on the reverse. Signed Kôsai.
Diameter 4.6 cm

The two large kanji on the sack (kan nin) refer to patience. After a mistake - obviously caused by the sake indicated in the engraving on the reverse - the farmer ties up his mistake/sins in the large sack.

Provenance

Estate of Albert Brockhaus (1855 – 1921)

Literature

According to MCI, p. 389, possibly the seventh of a total of ten carvers referenced.