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Sennin Tekkai
Netsuke Nara Ningyo
Lost Art-ID
600842
Artist
Unknown (Japan)
Title
Sennin Tekkai
Additional title
Netsuke Nara Ningyo
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood / carved ; painted
Height
10.00 cm
Description
Tekkai stands leaning on his long knotted staff; the bearded head with long hair at the back of the head looks upwards and blows his soul into the air; the Chinese robe tattered at the bottom is belted by a leafy apron; the right hand holds a gourd; remains of green painting.
Provenance
Acquired in 1908 by Herbert Ginsberg in Japan from the Vautier Collection; 1908 to 1942 Ostasiatica Collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; confiscated by the SD in Rotterdam in 1942.
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt Netsuke und Okimono, Buddhismus, Nr. 43.
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