A particularly precise work with great attention to detail depicting an older man, walking and smoking a pipe with a long stem and a small bowl. In the other hand he is holding a tobacco pouch, a kiseruzutsu and a netsuke, and carrying a pair of scissors in his belt on the back. These tiny objects are perfectly captured; the tobacco pouch with wrinkles and a clasp, the man’s netsuke carved in the shape of a chrysanthemum blossom. Headpiece and trousers with black lacquer, uniquely small himotoshi, the signature on the small red plate probably reads SOSAI, a master from the So school in Tokyo.

Category:

Netsuke

Subcategory:

-

Subject:

Figural Daily Life

Material:

Ivory Lacquer

Age/Country:

So School

Artist:

Sosai

Provenance/Owner:

Galerie Zacke

Signed:

signed

Type:

Katabori

Height:

58mm mm

Width:

mm

Depth:

mm

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