A boxwood netsuke of a Okame with a box. 19th century - image-1
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Lot 313 Dα

A boxwood netsuke of a Okame with a box. 19th century

Auction 1190 - overview Cologne
11.12.2021, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 750 € (incl. premium)
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A boxwood netsuke of a Okame with a box. 19th century

A chubby and vulgar girl, who in Japanese is called okame, sits surrounded by her skirt and coyly holds her hand over her mouth in view of the content of the box she holds containing a dildo.
Height 4.1 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Southern Germany

Literature

Ill. in: J. van Daalen, Blumen und Pflanzen im Kunstgewerbe Ostasiens, Cologne (Kunsthaus am Museum Carola Van Ham) 1978, no. 52, pannel 11