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328Y Ф
AN IVORY OKIMONO FIGURE GROUP
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising an elegantly coiffured and attired
woman holding an elaborately tasselled
basket containing flowers, affectionately
looking over at a young girl kneeling on the
ground, feeding sweets to the chin dog at her
feet; signature tablet lacking.
19.5cm (7 5/8in) high.

£800 - 1,200
JPY110,000 - 170,000
US$990 - 1,500

329Y Ф
AN IVORY OKIMONO FIGURE GROUP
OF TWO CHINESE IMMORTALS
WITH A PHOENIX
By Miyamoto Ryokoku, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Possibly alluding to a poem by Li Bai, one
immortal standing, supporting a majestic
phoenix perched on his left shoulder whilst
his companion, kneeling on the ground, holds
up an alms bowl containing seeds, a long-
handled basket brimming over with fungi and
fruit resting at their feet; signed on the base
Miyamoto Ryokoku to.
24.5cm (9 5/8in) high.

£2,000 - 3,000 329
JPY280,000 - 410,000
US$2,500 - 3,700

330Y Ф
FOUR IVORY FIGURE
OKIMONO FIGURES
Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising a woman standing, clad in an
elegant kimono, holding in one hand a bowl
containing a lobster emerging from a shell and
a sheaf of straw attached to a seabream’s
mouth in the other, signed on the base
Meishin with seal, 26cm (10¼in) high; the
second of a monkey-trainer, resting one foot
on a tree stump, holding a baton and portable
hoop turning to his young assistant holding a
spinning top and fruit, the performing monkey
clambering across the man’s back, signed in
a rectangular red-lacquer reserve Shizuyasu,
19cm (7½ini) high; the third of Shoki the
Demon-Queller standing on a rocky ledge,
hauling two captured demons with a rope,
signed Mitsutomo, 14.5cm (5¾in) high; the
fourth of a young woman carrying a child
playing with a long strip of cloth on her back,
signed on the base Masanobu,
13.5cm (5¼in) high. (4).

£1,500 - 2,000
JPY210,000 - 280,000
US$1,900 - 2,500

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