A Wood Study of a Monkey, by Kano Tomokazu, Gifu, early 19th century

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Description

3.5cm., 1 3/8 in.

seated, its body twisted as it bites into a berry from a branch of nanten held in its lap, one bent leg forming the himotoshi, the pale wood is stained and the eyes are of pale translucent horn with darker pupils, signed in a rounded rectangular reserve Tomokazu

Provenance

Eskenazi, Ltd., 1991

Catalogue Note

For a somewhat similar example, see Marie Thèrése Coullery and Martin S.Newstead, Catalogue of the Baur Collection, pp.332/3, no. C1034