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423 A boxwood netsuke of a sleeping sarumawashi.
18th/early 19th century

Lying asleep with a smile, his head resting on his left
hand while the monkey behind him reaches for the
food basket.
Length 6.6 cm
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 9.11.2006, lot 1102 (part of lot)

€ 800 – 1.000

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424 An ivory netsuke of a sleeping sarumawashi.
Early 19th century

The old monkey trainer has fallen asleep while
the little monkey in a sleeveless vest is nibbling
at a fruit.
Height 2.3 cm; length 8.1 cm
€ 500 – 700

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425 A Tokyo school ivory shunga netsuke of a young
woman with a scroll, by Hakuunsai II.
Late 19th century
Looking up smiling, holding a scroll in her hands.
Her elaboratly coiffed black-stained hair adorned
with a glass pin. Her lips, the collar of her kimono
as well as the inside of her sleeves stained red.
Her spread out kimono reveals her pubic area.
Signed Hakuunsai.
Height 4.2 cm
Literature
Illustrated in: Japanische Netsuke von Meistern.
Okimono, Inro, Galerie Zacke, Vienna Kitzendorf
2005, cat. no. 42

€ 1.400 – 1.600

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