AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE NEGORO LACQUERED WOOD TONKOTSU

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE NEGORO LACQUERED WOOD TONKOTSU

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The tobacco box carved as two men wrestling, both kneeling and grasping each other at the waist, each wearing a red lacquer kimono and with their eyes inlaid, their heads forming the lid, 9cm.

Provenance: formerly the collection of Sir Sydney Richard Wells, 1st Baronet, D.L., M.P. for Bedford (1879-1957) of Felmersham Grange, Bedfordshire, and thence by descent.