AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD CARVING OF A FOREIGNER

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD CARVING OF A FOREIGNER, OKIMONO

EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

The Dutch or Portuguese man standing, holding a small bat in his hand while gently caressing it with the other, a benevolent expression on his face, typically depicted with long curly hair and wearing a short jacket over breeches, raised on a modern rectangular base, with a paper label for the Greenfield Collection, n.40, 26cm overall. (2)

Provenance: formerly from the Charles A Greenfield Collection, no.40.

The Charles A Greenfield Collection of Japanese art is particularly renowned for its lacquer pieces which have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1980. Highlights from the collection are discussed in Eskenazi, The Charles A Greenfield collection of Japanese lacquer, and many pieces from the collection were sold at a three-part sale at Sotheby's New York between 1998 and 1999.