Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

THE DR JR AND MARY STRONG COLLECTION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART LOTS 121–167 47 164 An ivory okimono of rats, 19th century carved with five rats playing among large leaves issuing from a persimmon, with horn inlaid eyes, 8,5 cm high R  –   *This lot is not suitable for export 165 An ivory figural okimono, 19th century carved with a man laughing at five little men metamorphosing into sparrows, each wearing a haori and a straw jingasa , leaning back on his right hand with a bundle behind him, a tree trunk and small brush between his feet, signed in a red lacquer reserve, Masayoshi, 5,5 cm high R  –   *This lot is not suitable for export 166 An ivory okimono of Ashinaga and Tenaga, 19th century the latter seated on his friend’s back and reaching down to grasp an octopus, its tentacles entangled around Ashinaga’s legs, the octopus with inlaid eyes, a basket of fish to the reverse, signed Tomoharu, 11,4 cm high R  –   *This lot is not suitable for export 167 An ivory okimono of a Yamabushi and child, 19th century the standing mountain monk wearing a skull cap and holding a broom in his right hand, with a rosary over his left arm, his hand cupping the face of a boy, the child holding a bag in his left hand, with a bucket at their feet, 11,5 cm high ; and an ivory okimono of a geisha and her children, 19th century, the standing figure suckling her baby and holding an open fan in her right hand, with a small boy holding a drum to her left, the mask of Shio- Fuki at her feet, heightened with black staining, 8,5 cm high (2) R  –   *This lot is not suitable for export 168-170 No Lots 164 165 166 167