A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century - image-1
A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century - image-2
A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century - image-1A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century - image-2

Lot 1015 Dα

A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century

Auktion 1053 - Übersicht Köln
05.06.2015, 14:00 - Japanische Kunst - Netsuke, Okimono, Lack und Sagemono, Schwertschmuck
Schätzpreis: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
Ergebnis: 4.712 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

A fine boxwood netsuke of Fukurokuju playing with a kemari, by Yoshikata. Late 18th century

Striding forward whilst lifting his robe above his raised leg and kicking the small kemari (football) which has landed on his head, a stiff fan in his left hand. Signed Yoshitaka saku.
Height 6.4 cm

Provenienz

Francois Storno, Geneva (sold at Christie's London, 16.5.2007, lot 203)
Lempertz, Cologne, 11./12.6.2010, lot 941

Literaturhinweise

Lazarnick 1982, p. 1232
MCI, p. 983