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NETSUKE: REISHI MUSHROOM IN THE NETSUKE: SAMPLER FOR BAGS OF with a typical cloth, from which long NETSUKE OF SEIOBO
SHAPE OF RUYI SCEPTER. RICE IN THE SHAPE OF FUKUROKUJU. ribbons fall on his back. As himotoshi a WITH PEACH BASKET.
NETSUKE: REISHI - PILZ EIN NETSUKE: REISSTECHER IN FORM DES hole is drilled in the back and the string NETSUKE DER SEIOBO MIT
RUYI - SZEPTER BILDEND. FUKUROKUJU. is led through the natural opening of the DEM PFIRSICHKORB.
Japan. 19th c. Japan. 18th/19th c. horn. Length 19.8cm. Condition A/B. Japan. 18th c.

Boxwood, carved and with residue of Stag antler, carved and with old polished € 1.200 – 1.500 | $ 1.332 – 1.665 Dark wood with black rubbed lacquer.
black lacquer. The mushroom is strongly patina. The figure follows the form of the The super - slender figure of an elegant
elongated, ends in a bulb and the upper tip of a stag antler. The standing god has Chinese lady is wrapped in long - sleeved
cap is slightly tilted forward so that the a strongly elongated cranium. His face robes, a stole is draped around her
whole has the shape of an obi hasami. carved expressively. He is dressed in a shoulders. Her robe suitably decorated
At the front and at the back each two Chinese garment, decorated with Chinese with clouds and her hair is pinned up in
smaller mushrooms have grown. There characters, and holds a leaf fan. a peach knot. In front of her, she holds
are small holes drilled in the topmost a basket with a twig of two peaches
hat and in the stem, which may have promising eternal life. Height 12.3cm.
been intended as a string runner. Condition B. On the back at the seam an
Length 15.3cm. Condition B. An original old chip.
imperfection on the hat of the uppermost
mushroom repaired. € 1.200 – 1.500 | $ 1.332 – 1.665

€ 900 – 1.200 | $ 999 – 1.332

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