SIGNED JUKAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A Large and Impressive Ivory Figure of a Flower-Seller
Signed Jukan, Meiji Period (Late 19th Century)
Leaning forward with his weight resting on his right leg, a bunch of peonies in his left hand resting on his right arm which is stretched out before him, at his waist two smaller baskets and a pair of gardener's secateurs to the left and a bamboo inro and netsuke to the right, a larger basket on his back containing narcissi and lilies, wearing typical countryman's dress of the late Edo period including breeches, jacket and headscarf, signed on the base Jukan, some old damage
23¼in. (59cm.) high

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Nagasawa Jukan (another possible reading is Toshihiro) was active towards the end of the Meiji period; see Shibuya Kuritsu Shoto Bijutsukan [The Shoto Museum of Art], Nihon no zoge bijutsu - Meiji no zoge chokoku o chushin ni [History of Japanese Ivory Carving - Gebori Okimono and Shibayama of Meiji Period] (Tokyo, 1996), p. 242.

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