Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

97 265 A Japanese ivory okimono of a parasol seller, Meiji Period, 1868-1912 the cross-legged seated figure resting his left hand on his knee holding a parasol with three further parasols below, his box of tools to the right and his purse to the foreground, wearing finely engraved and stained robes, his instrument missing from his right hand, signed in a red lacquer reserve, paper label, 5cm high R –  * This lot is not suitable for export 266 A Japanese ivory okimono of a sake pedlar, Meiji Period, 1868- 1912 the seated figure with mouth agape, holding hibashi in his right hand, his left hand resting on his knee before an open fire with a cauldron suspended from a bamboo tripod stand, signed in red-stained script, 7cm high R –  * This lot is not suitable for export 267 Japanese lacquer four-case inro, 19th century bearing a mokume-nuri ground, the front with a falcon tethered to an elaborate stand inlaid with aogai and gold kirikane , the reverse with a pair of small birds in flight above the stand, with a spray of flowers, the birds of hirame , the interior of rich nashihi , signed paper label, with a metal ojime decorated with a cricket amongst foliage, and an ivory netsuke of a hawk perched on a gnarled branch, the case 9,5cm high, the netsuke 4,5cm high (3) R –  * This lot is not suitable for export 264 265 266 267