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20th Century Carved Exotic Wood Oriental Sculpture Fisherman and Fish, 1960s

1960

Oriental sculpture from the mid-20th century. Nicely carved and worked exotic wooden object depicting a character with an animal on a chain of good quality. Sculpture made from a sin...

Refined white marble statue from the first half of the 20th century. This is a very high quality copy of a work by the great Italian sculptor Giacomo Ginotti (1845-1897). Known as Th...

This is an amazing piece born by the fine craftmenships of the Sardinian artisan of the beautiful island of Sardinia, Italy. The fisherman has a dynamic movement that depicts the fig...

Late 19th C Japanese carved hardwood okimono of a man, circa 1890 This top quality and most impressive large scale Japanese carved hardwood okimono superbly depicts a characterful study of a delightfully crafty looking man. He is dressed simply in a robe. On his back, he has a rolled woven mat for resting and a turtle shell sun hat hangs below. On his side hanging from his waist sash, there is a simple hand fan made from woven palm leaves and around his neck, he is wearing a string of very large beads. This unfortunate character is on a journey and he seems to have lost or broken one sandal. His foot is sore and he is resting it on his gnarly walking stick. He has one arm outstretched and is holding out a large piece of fresh fruit as an offering perhaps to barter for new sandals...