Asian Art - 15th November 2017
Lot 763
λ A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE 19TH CENTURY Depicting Shoki the Demon Queller wrestling with an...
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λ A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE
19TH CENTURY
Depicting Shoki the Demon Queller wrestling with an oni, the other side with the deity's sack and staff and signed Ichieisai Komin with kakihan, together with another netsuke depicting a man lying on a kang, 4.5cm. (3)
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, pp.383-384, for other comparable manju by Ichieisai Komin.