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348Y Ф A key figure in the early history of modern Japanese sculpture,
AN IVORY OKIMONO OF A MONKEY Ishikawa Komei was born into a family of temple craftsman and from
By Ishikawa Komei (1852-1913), Meiji era (1868-1912), the age of ten studied painting for a time under Kano Kazunobu
late 19th/early 20th century (1816–1863) before training as an ivory carver in the workshop of
Sensitively carved, seated with one hand clenched and resting on the Kikugawa Masamitsu, a netsuke maker. Starting in 1876 he exhibited
ground, looking up with a pensive expression, his right hand holding his work widely at home and abroad and participated in the interior
his left leg; signed on the base with chiselled characters Komei with decoration of imperial palaces. In 1890 he was named Teishitsu
a partially effaced seal Ishi. Gigeiin (Artist-Craftsman to the Imperial Household) and in 1891 he
13.2cm x 13.1cm (5 1/8in x 5 1/8in). was appointed Professor in the Sculpture Department of the Tokyo
School of Art.
£20,000 - 30,000
JPY2,800,000 - 4,100,000
US$25,000 - 37,000

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