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EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)
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A JAPANESE FIGURE OF A SEATED SHINTO DEITY
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)
A painted carved wood figure of a Shinto deity, dressed in a voluminous robe, seated in seiza style on a platform carved in openwork, with his hands folded before his chest.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)
A painted carved wood figure of a Shinto deity, dressed in a voluminous robe, seated in seiza style on a platform carved in openwork, with his hands folded before his chest.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, Bar Harbor, Maine, 18 September 1930.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1930-1948.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1960.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1960-1973.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
Acquired August 1974.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1930-1948.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1960.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1960-1973.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
Acquired August 1974.
Literature
R. Ellsworth and A. Christy, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, New York, Vol. III, 1993, p. 240, no. 186 (illustrated, p. 240).
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