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A Fine Tokyo School Ivory Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]
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A Fine Tokyo School Ivory Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]

SIGNED MEIDO, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Fermé11 May 2011

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GBP 20,000

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A Fine Tokyo School Ivory Okimono [Sculptural Ornament]
Signed Meido, Meiji Period (late 19th century)
Carved as a woman with her two young children
40.5cm. high

Note du spécialiste

For the artist see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, (Honolulu, 1982), p.750, where Lazarnick notes that the artist exhibited some of his work at the Columbian Exhibition in the USA in 1893 and was an "expert carver in ivory".