SIGNED KYOSAI AND TOKOKU, EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A STAGSHORN KISERUZUTSU [PIPECASE]
Signed Kyosai and Tokoku, Edo/Meiji Period (19th Century)
Incised and carved in low relief with Kannon holding a hossu [whisk], the handle of the hossu stained red, signed above Kannon in stained and incised characters Shojo Kyosai with a gilt seal Shuchu gaki [drunken painting demon], signed on the reverse near the base Tokoku sha [copied by Tokoku] with an inlaid shell seal Bairyu
8¼in. (21cm.) long

Provenance

Henry Charles Clifford Collection

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Lot Essay

For Tokoku, see lot no. 77. This is a particularly interesting example of carving based on the work of the great Meiji-period painter Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89); for a painting by Kyosai of Kannon see Timothy Clark, Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyosai (British Museum, London, 1993), cat. no. 39.

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