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Subject:Ivory okimono signature
Posted By: Flávio Amaral Sat, Dec 03, 2022 IP: 2804:14d:5490:a4e1:6

I’d need help to identify the the marks at the bottom of an okimono figurine I received as a gif last month. I would apreciate any help/clue. It seems to me a drummer - the drum is lost. There are two characters at the bottom and also some kind of drawing. Thank you all in advance.







Subject:Re: Ivory okimono signature
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Dec 04, 2022

The two-character mark on the base reads down as 之玉/ Koredama or Koretama, the name of a Japanese ivory carver whose work I found listed among other ivory carvings in the following auction, apparently consisting of two lots, in a 1917 London catalog:

1 19 Gwaten Devi, the moon goddess, with a child holding her rabbit at the end of a rope, signed Shokiusai. Tokiwa Gozen and her children, signed Koretama.

A screen print of the cover page with further details from the catalog is included below.

Best regards,

Bill H.



Subject:Re: Ivory okimono signature
Posted By: Flávio Amaral Mon, Dec 05, 2022

Mr. Bill H., thank you very much for your quite informative response. I took the opportunity and searched the web, and it was possible both reading that catalogue online as also viewing an image described as ‘Tokiwa Gozen and her children”, sold in an auction in New York in 2001 (of which I post here a picture). What an amazing thing is internet.




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