Japanese Works of Art - 7th December 2020
Lot 374
A JAPANESE WOOD CARVING OF A MONKEY
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A JAPANESE WOOD CARVING OF A MONKEY, OKIMONO
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
The primate with inlaid eyes and depicted standing wearing long robes and a Shinto hat with circular medallions inlaid in horn, holding a kagura suzu rattle for the kagura Shinto dance, the base signed Sansho with kakihan, raised on an associated rectangular base, 21.2cm. (2)
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.697, for a comparable okimono of a monkey dressed as a Shinto priest by Sansho.