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Antique
Japanese Carved Okimono
Bird
Lover
Peasant Girl With Birds
Signed: Gyokuseki, Meiji, early 20th Century
Listed
in Netsuke by Neil K. Davey Pub. Sotheby 1974
Netsuke by A. Brockhaus, Leipzig
1905
H
6 in.(15cm), W 2 in.(5cm), D 1.5 in.(3.8cm)
Condition: Very Good An
outstanding Meiji era okimono in fine quality center of the tusk, cream to gold
patina with cool highlights; dense, finely striated and layered with gradations
of tone, depicting a peasant girl; excellently carved with animated naturalness,
extensively engraved with subtly colored embroideries and deeply draped and folded
garments from which an abundant cluster of grapes is overflowing, capturing a
moment of tender inquisitiveness, the girl cradling a bird; fine ink lines for
the eyes and eyebrows; traces of red pigment on the lips. Glossy high hand finish,
signature on the bottom: Gyokuseki.
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