A LARGE JAPANESE BRONZE FIGURE

A LARGE JAPANESE BRONZE FIGURE, OKIMONO

MEIJI 1868-1912

Cast as an elderly man holding a pipe and a tobacco pouch, tabakoire, with a large woven basket to his side overflowing with mushrooms, a conical straw hat slung over his back and wearing a long fur vest above his tunic, signed in seal form Genryusai Seiya kore o tsukuru, 50cm.

Cf. Bonhams London, 7th November 2013, lot 559 for a related bronze figure by Seiya of a mushroom picker.