Knob framing of ivory; inserted metal plate of shakudo; on it in engraving, high relief, silver and gold inlay Chokwaro hurrying after his mount conjured up with a jet of water from the gourd; signed: Minkoku Shokosai.
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. 48.