Project Description

Exceptional Large Walrus Ivory Kagamibuta by Kosai

The walrus ivory bowl carved with a snail and caterpillar on leaves, the silver plate carved with a monkey on a kaki branch confronting a crab

Signed on the rim: Kosai 

Diameter: 5 cm

Provenance:

E.A. Wrangham, sold at his sale, Bonhams London, 10th May 2011, part II, lot 119, catalogued as unsigned, bought by Jacques Carré 

MR3108