Live Auction 16723The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana
A JAPANESE FIGURE OF A SEATED SHINTO DEITY
Lot 942

A JAPANESE FIGURE OF A SEATED SHINTO DEITY

EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)

Closed10 May 2018

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A JAPANESE FIGURE OF A SEATED SHINTO DEITY
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)
A painted carved wood figure of a Shinto deity, dressed in a voluminous robe, seated in seiza style on a platform carved in openwork, with his hands folded before his chest.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Yamanaka & Company, Bar Harbor, Maine, 18 September 1930.
Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1930-1948.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1960.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1960-1973.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
Acquired August 1974.