Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 21st April 2021
Lot 520
λ A GOOD JAPANESE IVORY OKIMONO OF RATS
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £6000
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Description
λ A GOOD JAPANESE IVORY OKIMONO OF RATS
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
three of the rodents depicted on a large ear of corn and the fourth beside it gnawing on a bean, the animals finely carved and with their eyes inlaid, signed 'Tamao' underneath and with two paper collection labels, one reading 'G1358' and the other for the Tomkinson Collection no.246
8.5cm
Provenance
Formerly the collection of Sir Sydney Richard Wells, 1st Baronet, D.L., M.P. for Bedford (1879-1957) of Felmersham Grange, Bedfordshire, and thence by descent.