Lucky Buddha soapstone
The cheerful looking god sits leaning back on a dragon. …

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Lucky Buddha soapstone The cheerful looking god sits leaning back on a dragon. H.: 7 cm, L.: 10 cm.

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Lucky Buddha soapstone

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Ornate relief of the god Bes seated on an altar. terracotta. Gaps. H. 19.5cm Levant coast, Egyptian influence.

Estim. 600 - 1 200 EUR

GYOKKOSAI: A HUMOROUS WOOD NETSUKE OF RAIJIN TAKING A SMOKE BREAK GYOKKOSAI: A HUMOROUS WOOD NETSUKE OF RAIJIN TAKING A SMOKE BREAK By Gyokkosai, signed Gyokko 玉光 Japan, Edo (Tokyo), mid-19th century, Edo period (1615-1868) The muscular god of raging thunder taking a much-earned smoke break, sitting cross-legged on his drum, holding a kiseru (pipe) to his mouth. His tobacco pouch, resting in front of him, attached to a netsuke and ojime, is inscribed with the phrase ‘hi yoshin’ (‘beware of fire’). The expression of Raijin is amusing, his double-inlaid eyes widened by the plume of smoke extracted into his lungs. The studs to the rim of the drum and the himotoshi rings to the underside are inlaid in dark horn. Signed within a recessed oval reserve GYOKKO – Gyokkosai, who occasionally signed Gyokko, was a pupil of Ikkosai Saito Itaro. HEIGHT 4.4 cm Condition: Good condition with wear, a small repair to the end of the pipe and a crack to the side of the drum. The separately carved figure of Raijin has been re-stuck to the drum. Provenance: C. H. W. Mander collection. Sotheby’s London, 2 December 1930, lot 92. Collection of Frederick Meinertzhagen. French private collection, acquired from the above.

Estim. 150 - 300 EUR

AN INK PAINTING OF DAIKOKU AN INK PAINTING OF DAIKOKU Japan, 19th century Ink and watercolors on paper. Freely painted with the God of Wealth Daikoku sitting on a rice bale, one hand clasped around a sack, and the other holding his wish-granting mallet (uchide no kozuchi). SIZE of the sheet 28.7 x 39 cm Condition: Good condition with minor wear. Slight browning of paper, minor creasing, centerfold, and a few stains. Gently mounted on a paper passepartout Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Padua, Mühldorf, Germany. Thomas Padua was an artist and collector of Japanese woodblock prints who exhibited his surimono collection at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, in ‘Glückwünsche aus Kyoto: Japanische Shijo-Surimono aus der Sammlung Thomas Padua,’ 3 November 2013 to 26 January 2014.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Roman Bronze Statuette of Young Mercury on the Eagle of Jupiter. 2nd century A.D. Modelled in the round as a figure of an eagle perching with its head turned to the right; on its back, the god Mercury with caduceus on his left arm and petasos on his head; mounted on a custom-made stand. Cf. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 51 (Mercury with caduceus). 63.3 grams total, 68 mm including stand (2 5/8 in.). The figure of the messenger-god Mercury seated on the pinion of the eagle possibly relates to a mythic incident. Similar imagery was used in respect of Jupiter in scenes where the god was supposed to welcome a newly-deified emperor into the pantheon: see Metropolitan Museum of Art accession no. 32.142.2, for a sardonyx instance of this motif. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. [No Reserve]

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