Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

THE ANDREW NEWALL COLLECTION LOTS 1-164 43 130 A Japanese carved ivory tusk and cover, Meiji period, 1868-1912 carved in high relief with five writhing dragons amongst clouds chasing a flaming pearl incorporating four bracket supports, their eyes set with mother-of-pearl, the cover similarly carved and surmounted by a ‘flaming pearl’finial, 17cm high R12 000 - 15 000 *This lot is not suitable for export 128 129 130 131 129 A Japanese export ivory shoe horn, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the handle finely carved with a monkey in combat with an eagle, the eyes of the monkey inlaid, the shaft signed with two-character mark, 17cm high R12 000 - 15 000 *This lot is not suitable for export 128 A large Japanese gold-lacquer and ivory figural okimono of a woodsman, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the standing figure holding a later staff in his right hand, his jacket and pantaloons decorated with gold lacquer and coloured mons in hiramaki-e , takamakie and aogai , a large frame supporting bundles of tied brushwood and kindling strapped to his back, his left hip with a tobacco pouch and netsuke, wearing waraji sandals , tobacco pouch signed, his left sleeve signed Koho in gold lacquer, signed Teimin in the rectangular red lacquer reserve, on a fixed carved wooden base, 42cm high including stand R30 000 - 35 000 *This lot is not suitable for export LITERATURE cf. Laura Bordignon (2010) The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono, Dr A. M. Kanter’s Collection , Antique Collectors’Club Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, pages 144 & 145, where an example by the same maker is illustrated in colour. 131 A Japanese Shibayama style ivory-mounted tanto, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the saya, tsuka, tsuba and kurigata typically executed in Shibayama inlaid with mother-of-pearl, coloured precious stones and tortoiseshell, the saya profusely engraved with a hexagonal brocade pattern, the kozuka similarly inlaid, 30cm long R20 000 - 25 000 *This lot is not suitable for export