An ivory okimono of a man at house cleaning. ...
An ivory okimono of a man at house cleaning. Late 19th century
Washing a sliding door with damaged shôji, which is supported by a boy, both figures surrounded by a tub, bucket, brooms, vessels, and a cat which has cought a mouse and another mouse running away, on a stand on four cabriole legs. Signed Sakai Munefusa on a red tablet.
Height 14.5 cm Provenance
Hutton Tait Collection, no. 357 (paper label to the base)
Private collection, Rhineland, acquired at Nagel, Stuttgart, 2.3.1981, lot 393
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An ivory okimono of a man at house cleaning. Late 19th century
Washing a sliding door with damaged shôji, which is supported by a boy, both figures surrounded by a tub, bucket, brooms, vessels, and a cat which has cought a mouse and another mouse running away, on a stand on four cabriole legs. Signed Sakai Munefusa on a red tablet.
Height 14.5 cm Provenance
Hutton Tait Collection, no. 357 (paper label to the base)
Private collection, Rhineland, acquired at Nagel, Stuttgart, 2.3.1981, lot 393
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