Lot 86
86
CANDY VENDOR

Details
CANDY VENDOR
Wood, signed Gyokuso
(1879-1944)
1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm.) high, in fitted tomobako inscribed Ameya kibori netsuke "wood carved netsuke of a candy seller", signed and sealed on the underside of the lid Gyokuso
Literature
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke, Weatherhill, New York, 1971, fig. 260, illustrated in color, p. 155 Raymond Bushell, Netsuke, An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection, Mikomoto, Tokyo, 1979, fig. 438

Lot Essay

An itinerant candy vendor attracts village children by blowing up a rubber balloon or by telling stories from picture cards. When the group of children has grown sufficiently large the vendor sells his sweets and departs for the next village.