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MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
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A Good Ivory Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
Depicting a peasant dressed in a headcloth, leaning forward with his weight mainly on his right leg, a pipecase and tobacco-pouch at his waist, his right arm supporting a rice-straw bundle from which a hare attempts to escape, his left hand trying to restrain a second hare which has already freed itself from the bundle, all the details exceptionally well observed and modelled, signed on the base in incised characters within a double rectangular reserve Toshinaga
11 15/16in. (30.4cm.) high
Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
Depicting a peasant dressed in a headcloth, leaning forward with his weight mainly on his right leg, a pipecase and tobacco-pouch at his waist, his right arm supporting a rice-straw bundle from which a hare attempts to escape, his left hand trying to restrain a second hare which has already freed itself from the bundle, all the details exceptionally well observed and modelled, signed on the base in incised characters within a double rectangular reserve Toshinaga
11 15/16in. (30.4cm.) high
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