A JAPANESE SILVER OKIMONO OF A MINOGAME

A JAPANESE SILVER OKIMONO OF A MINOGAME

MEIJI OR TAISHO, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The mythical turtle depicted with long seaweed growing from the top of its shell and trailing behind it, its head slightly turned to the left, the underside signed Ryubundo zo, and with a junjin silver mark below, 24.4cm.

Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset.

See Japanese Works of Art, 23rd November 2021, lot 1004, for a related okimono signed Ryubundo sold in these rooms.

Cf. L Bordignon, The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono, pp.243-4 for another example of a silver minogame signed Ryuki.