Antique Japanese Meiji Period Ivory Figural Group / Okimono, Go Players, circa 1890 Paintings signed to the lower right

signed to the lower right

subsequently destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871

1989: Third Prize

striking the hours on a circular gong

Antique Japanese Meiji Period Ivory Figural Group / Okimono, Go Players, circa 1890 Paintings signed to the lower rightThis item has recently sold. Email us and we might have something similar in inventory. Antique Japanese Meiji Period Ivory Figural Group Okimono, Go Players, circa 1890. The figural group depicting two distinguished elder Japanese gentlemen engaged in the game of Go. Each figure is very finely carved in traditional dress and engraved with polychrome decoration. Each player having a container for Go stones and the game board located to the center.