Netsuke of a parrot made of maritime ivory and kagamibuta plate

Description:

Japan, 18th century and mid-19th century
H. 4,7 cm; D. 3,3 cm
A parrot sits on a wooden tree stump with its head tilted and its chest feathers glistening, its eyes inlaid in yellow. It is possible that the wooden trunk is an addition. The kagamibuta plate made of shibuichi, in coloured relief a crown on a vine with leaves and grapes. .
From an old German private collection, the parrot acquired at Lempertz, Köln, 4 and 5 December 1984, lot 586, it is published: Antiquitätenzeitung, Nr.1, 1985, p. 12, the hammer price was DM 3000 - The plate
Lempertz auction 604, Köln, 4/5.12.1984, lot 586 (copy of invoice + catalogue description received in copy),
Kagamibuta, R32, Shakudo plate with coloured metal inlays, 19th century acquired on 24.10.1986 (copy of invoice received) - Traces of age