An amusing ivory netsuke of court servants. First half 19th century - image-1

Lot 1070 Dα

An amusing ivory netsuke of court servants. First half 19th century

Auction 1112 - overview Cologne
16.06.2018, 16:31 - The Papp Collection of Netsuke
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.400 €
Result: 2.604 € (incl. premium)

An amusing ivory netsuke of court servants. First half 19th century

A boy, hair combed into a long pony tail, stands between a court servant (eiji) making a funny face and holding an umbrella wrapped into a piece of cloth and a seated sleeping servant whose eboshi has slipped from his head and is caught by the boy.
Height 8.4 cm

Provenance

Purchased from Offermann & Schmitz at the Munich Art Fair, October 1971
Coll. no. 885 (printed and handwritten)