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Japanese, Edo Period

1603 – 1868

Smiling Sarumawashi (monkey dancer). Early 19th Century

Ivory. 7 cm (2 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Japanese, Edo Period. Smiling Sarumawashi (monkey dancer). Early 19th Century.

Estimate:

EUR 500

 

- 700

USD 562

 

- 787

Sold for:

625 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Ivory. 7 cm (2 ¾ in.). Signature (presumably added later): Gyokuzan. Standing in balance.

Related literature: George Lazarnick, The Signature Book of Netsuke, Inro and Ojime. Artist Signatures in Photographs, Hongkong 1976 / Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz: Gürtelschmuck from Japan paper. The collection Trumpf, Bestandskat., Stuttgart 2000 / dies.: The World of Netsuke. The Werdelmann Collection at the Museum Kunst palace Düsseldorf, exh. cat., Stuttgart 2005.

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