Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
4-11 August 1915
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/64
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    719 720 721 722 123 Uf 78 A gold lacquer box and cover, formed as a fruit; a wooden inro and netsuké, shaped as a tortoise ; a wooden basket- pattern inro, with ivory netsuké; a watch inro; and a lacquer box and cover, formed as a bamboo sprout A black lacquer cabinet, containing two drawers, with feather decoration in togidashi ; a circular dark red lacquer box, carved with the storm-dragon; and a wooden okimono of a fisherman, boy and anchor A dirk, black lacquer scabbard with flowers in gold togidashi, the mounts of silver chased with peonies; and a pipe- case and tobacco-box, the former carved of bamboo, the latter of black lacquer with prunus in gold and mother- o’-pearl An ivory okimono of a skull, coiled with a snake, frogs and toads ; another, with an elephant and Chinese boys; and one, with a daimio and attendants, by a caged stork An ivory okimono, a showman and monkeys on the back of a toad; another, with a priest and No dancers; another, a persimmon fruit, and one, with a cottage and peasants ; a dirk, in ivory scabbard, inlaid with peonies in mother- o’-pearl; an ivory okimono, carved with the Goddess Benton and attendants; and an ivory okimono, of fisher- folk on the seashore A Japanese pottery vase, with beaker neck and elephant’s ? and flowers in variously shaped panels, on a dark green nashiji ground—82 i. high “
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