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Resting old man
Netsuke
Lost Art-ID
600977
Artist
Unknown (Japan)
Title
Resting old man
Additional title
Netsuke
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ivory / carved
Height
3.50 cm
Description
Old man sitting on the ground, who has let the kimono fall from his upper body in order to get a better breath of air and who is now looking up to the sky with his hands folded around his right leg, which is pulled up, his almost toothless mouth open with a smile.
Provenance
Acquired in 1908 by Herbert Ginsberg in Japan; 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, Diverse, Nr. 179.
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