A JAPANESE MONKEY GROUP

19TH CENTURY

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A JAPANESE MONKEY GROUP
19TH CENTURY
Naturalistically modelled as a seated mother monkey holding one of her young on her lap, their faces detailed in washes of iron-red, their fur picked out in gold
6 5/8 in. (16.7 cm.) wide, overall

Lot Essay

A very similar group in the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, is illustrated by T.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, p. 261. For other examples see anon. sale, Christie's, London, 19 June 2001, lot 405 and Christie's, New York, 26 January 2006, lot 164.

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