JAPANESE IVORY AND BRONZE OKIMONO OF A CHICKEN CATCHER Y
SIGNED KANEDA, MEIJI PERIOD
£4,750
Auction: Japanese Works of Art
Description
realistically carved as a woman dressed in peasant clothing with a simple kimono and a headscarf covering her hair, holding a basketweave cage and bending forwards in an attempt to catch a cockerel, chicken and three chicks, all on wooden base, signed with seal on the obi to the back of the figure
Dimensions
24.5cm high overall
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Collection, Scottish Borders
Acquired in Hong Kong in the first half of the 20th century. Thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by a newspaper cutting from The Hong Kong Telegraph dated Saturday October 22nd, 1927. The figure is said to be leaving Hong Kong for England, after having been bought at Komor and Komors' Art Exhibition. It is described as "one of the most perfect ivory carvings by the celebrated artist "Kaneda"'.