Asian Art II - 21st May 2015
Lot 409
λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF MOSO LATE 18TH CENTURY Digging for bamboo shoots beneath snow...
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λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF MOSO
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Digging for bamboo shoots beneath snow covered bamboo, unsigned, 4.8cm.
Moso is one of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety often represented digging for bamboo shoots to feed his sick mother.