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3082A PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR
A DRIED-LACQUER FIGURE OF HOTEI
By Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuo, 1663-1747) 3084
The laughing deity standing with his hands clasped to the front of A STANDING WOOD FIGURE OF A CHINESE GENERAL
his partially exposed torso, a large treasure sack resting to one side, Edo period (18th/19th century)
covered overall in reddish-brown lacquer, with an inlaid ceramic Carved and assembled and painted in polychrome pigments and
cartouche reading Kan gilt over gesso, the figure shown standing slightly contraposto and
With a stained wood storage box dressed in Chinese-style armor and robes elaborately decorated with
7 5/8in (9.5cm) high dragons in swirling clouds, karakusa and a variety of fans, a tiger
$6,000 - 8,000 skin tied to his waist and draped over his hips, his wide brimmed hat
decorated on the top with sacred jewels and formal lappets, a long
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION bow in his left hand, a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder,
each fletched with real feathers, the figure’s face applied with animal
3083 hair mustache and beard and the eyes inlaid in glass, on later fitted
A WOOD MODEL OF THE OLD BAMBOO CUTTER FROM wood base
KAGUYAHIME MONOGATARI 26 1/4in (66.7cm) high
Early 20th century $6,000 - 8,000
Carved from a single block of wood as the aged bamboo cutter in
the act of discovering Princess Kaguya inside a stem of bamboo
(now missing), signed on the base Tanaka and with kao, with fitted
lacquered wood stand
16 3/4in (42.6cm) high (including stand)
$2,500 - 3,500

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