Ivory Okimono of Silk Weavers

Description:

Ivory Okimono of Silk Weavers, Japan, 19th century, a couple joyfully working together pulling silk from silkworms using a small portable stove, a spinning wheel, and two baskets, all carved and pierced to minute details, stained in various tones of brown to black, signed in cursive style on a cinnabar cartouche inlaid onto base, 6 1/4 x 5 in.

Provenance: C. Will Chappell, Oneida, New York; Yamanaka & Co., Atlantic City, New Jersey; Yoshima & Co., Atlantic City, New Jersey; Kondo & Co., Atlantic City, New Jersey; Moore Brothers, Dr, Atlantic City, New Jersey; property by descent of the great-grandniece of Mrs. Chappell; copy of original receipt available.
Estimate $1,000-2,000

Cracks on the woman's and man's heads, cracks on the base, one of the two skeins of silk thread is loose, traces of bone deterioration.


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