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272 A boxwood netsuke of a sennin or 273 A rare and amusing boxwood 274 A boxwood netsuke of a pot-bellied
rakan. 19th century netsuke of Daikoku and Ebisu. smiling Hotei. Early 19th century
Late 18th/early 19th century
Standing with long hair curling into Standing with a shouldered bag, Hotei
locks, holding a scroll, a billowing Daikoku, looking like a peasant but lifts his robe with the right hand in
shawl placed over his arms, and identifiable by his headdress and order to wade through a stream.
wearing a skirt held in place by a mallet, carries on his back a tiny
beaded belt. Inscribed Minko. figure of Ebisu with a bamboo branch Hotei wading through water is a
Height 8.2 cm with good luck charms including a theme in Edo period zenga and Kano
notebook with the character reading school painting.
Provenance chô (notebook) in allusion to the Height 5.9 cm
Lempertz, Cologne, 9./10.6.2011, commonly written daifukuchô.
lot 283 € 300 – 500
The subject refers to the Toka Ebisu
€ 600 – 800
matsuri (Tenth-day Ebisu festival)
held held every year in Osaka and
the Kansai region from the 9th to the
11th of January. It is part of the New
Year’s celebration of visiting a shrine.
Visitors buy braches of bamboo (fuku
saza) and attach charms to it.
Height 8.5 cm
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 10.11.2005,
lot 1260

€ 700 – 900
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