Lot 230
FINE IVORY 'CHICKEN' GROUP Y
SIGNED HIRONOBU, MEIJI PERIOD
Auction: 18 September 2018 at 12:00 BST
£4,250
Description
depicting an onagadori (long-tailed cockerel) sitting on a wood high perch, its extensive long feathers forming its tail trailing behind, two hens and five chicks standing below on an irregular rocky base, the eyes of the chickens double inlaid in mother-of-pearl with horn pupils
Dimensions
71cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English collection; for more information, please see lot 226.
Note:
For a similar okimono, carved with a single long-tailed cockerel, see Bonhams' sale in their London rooms on 16.05.2013, lot 345.