Japan - Ivory Okimono Artist In Small Roll Anime Characters 1920

Japan – Antique Japanese ivory okimono, Taishō period – early Shōwa period (circa 1920), depicting a scholar-painter unrolling a scroll filled with small symbolic figures, signed with a red lacquer seal.

An antique Japanese ivory okimono depicting a scholar-painter on a terrace, in the act of creating. The figure holds aloft an unfurled painted scroll, filled with finely chiseled figures and embellished with sepia ochre ink motifs, evoking a symbolic and narrative register drawn from the Japanese imagination.
Alongside it are the traditional attributes of the painter: a tall, square pot containing large brushes with upright bristles, and a hemispherical container on the ground, fitted with a tube, probably for ink or water.

Sculpture signed with a red lacquer seal.
Japanese work from the Taishō period
– early Shōwa period, circa 1920–1930.

Height without base: 16.5 cm
Weight: 163 g
Material: Antique ivory
Condition: Excellent overall condition