Project Description

Ivory Netsuke of a Monkey with Kaki, by Rantei 

Seated clutching a large kaki fruit with its forepaws. The eye pupils are inlays of dark horn

Unsigned.  Kyoto, circa 1780

Length: 4cm

Provenance: 

Rolf Schmoll, Hamburg

Information: 

Compare with the Tomotada in Red Cross, pl. XLVIII no. 36.

Literature: 

Malcolm Fairley Japanese Works of Art, Netsuke from a Private European Collection, Part II, 2008, no. 10

MR1640